How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

—George Bernard Shaw

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About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

More quotations from George Bernard Shaw

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

—George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

—George Bernard Shaw

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

—George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

—George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair.

—George Bernard Shaw

More quotations tagged with “men and women”

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

—Elayne Boosler

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

—Groucho Marx

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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

—Rebecca West

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