If we women were particular about men’s characters, we should never get married at all.
– George Bernard Shaw
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- It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’sto keep unmarried as long as he can. – George Bernard Shaw
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- Science never solves a problem without creating ten more – George Bernard Shaw
- Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
- You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw
- Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. – George Bernard Shaw
- There is always danger for those who are afraid. – George Bernard Shaw
- If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George Bernard Shaw
- A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. – George Bernard Shaw
- Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
- [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. – George Bernard Shaw
- Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open. – George Bernard Shaw
- Hell is full of musical amateurs. – George Bernard Shaw
- Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? – George Bernard Shaw
- Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
- We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw
- Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! – George Bernard Shaw
- The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. – George Bernard Shaw
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. – George Bernard Shaw
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
- No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
- Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. – George Bernard Shaw
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
- HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper – say on a canal barge… – George Bernard Shaw
- HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper – say on a canal barge… – George Bernard Shaw
- The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. – George Bernard Shaw
- At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. – George Bernard Shaw
- His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw – Barbara W Tuchman
- England and America are two countries separated by the same language. – George Bernard Shaw
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. – George Bernard Shaw
- I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you. – George Bernard Shaw
- The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older. – George Bernard Shaw
- A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
- [Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
- Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
- What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing. – George Bernard Shaw
- How can she? She’s incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? – George Bernard Shaw