George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Women Quotes, Female Quotes

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Women Quotes , Female Quotes

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Real Quotes , Goal Quotes

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Pain Quotes , Imagination Quotes

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Girly Quotes , Women Quotes

Principles without programs are platitudes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Principles Quotes , Program Quotes

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Style Quotes , Force Quotes

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Pleasure Quotes , Life Worth Living Quotes

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Work Quotes

I never expect a soldier to think.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Soldier Quotes

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Real Quotes , Self Quotes

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Travel Quotes

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Brass Bands Quotes

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , Self Control Quotes

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Taken Quotes , Medicine Quotes

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Jealousy Quotes , Running Quotes

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Long Quotes , Secret Quotes

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Epidemics Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Life Quotes , Women Quotes

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Running Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Attitude Quotes