George Bernard Shaw Quotes

"Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving." ~ Man And Superman by George Bernard Shaw "The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error." ~ Man And Superman by George Bernard Shaw "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses." ~ Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw "People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." ~ Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw "You might have married him not because you loved him, but because you didn't love anybody else. When one is young, one marries out of mere curiosity, just to see what it's like." ~ The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw "The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly." ~ The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw "The fickleness of women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me." ~ The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw "A king is a splendid reality, a man raised above us like a god. You can see him; you can kiss his hand; you can be cheered by his smile and terrified by his frown." ~ Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress by George Bernard Shaw "All great truths begin as blasphemies." ~ Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress by George Bernard Shaw