Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.