Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

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

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The harder I work the more I live.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

I work as my father drank.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself."

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.