Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

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.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.