George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.
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You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
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I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.