George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Illness

• Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Beauty

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

• I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Mad, Assuming

• I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Get Well Soon, Health, Sickness

  Back to Methuselah Pt II

• A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Serious Illness, Barristers

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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