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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.»
«We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
patronize, patronized, patronizes, patronizing
«Whilst we have prisons it matters little who occupies the cells.»
«All problems are finally scientific problems.»
«There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.»
«Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.»
«Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
credible, extravaganza, extravaganzas
«The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.»
«He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.»
«It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
aided, faculties, studied, the British
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