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George Bernard Shaw on Women

1856–1950 Ireland

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13 quotes

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The Philanderer (1893)

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.

Pygmalion (1912)

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

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

The Philanderer (1893)

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

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Women, for the sake of their children and parents, submit to slaveries and prostitutions that no unattached woman would endure.

Androcles and the Lion (1912)

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

Man and Superman (1903)

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores (1913)

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

The Philanderer (1893)

We want none of your Lisson Grove prudery here, young woman. You've got to learn to behave like a duchess.

Pygmalion (1913)

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.

Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Perhaps woman's art is of woman's life a thing apart, 'tis man's whole existence; just as love is said to be the reverse — though it isn't.

Love Among the Artists (1900)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.