Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
- George Bernard Shaw
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
- George Bernard Shaw
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
- George Bernard Shaw
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
- George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
- George Bernard Shaw
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
- George Bernard Shaw
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
- George Bernard Shaw
I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.
- George Bernard Shaw
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
- George Bernard Shaw