Author of quotes: George Bernard Shaw



Still, Galatea does not completely like Pygmalion: he plays a too god-like role in her life, and this is not very pleasant.
№ 428503   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:38
- Nonsense! You will marry a foreign ambassador. You will marry the Governor General of India, or the Irish Lord Lieutenant, or some prince who needs a Queen Regent. I won't let any Freddie get my masterpiece.
№ 428501   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:37
Every girl has the right to be loved.
№ 428500   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:37
Oh, you are a real devil! You know how to grab a person by the very heart, as another grabs by the throat to strangle.
№ 428499   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:37
“I won't hear your soul in the gramophone. Leave me your soul, and you can take your face and voice with you. They are not you.
№ 428498   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:37
- I know you can. I told you that myself.
№ 428497   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:37
The secret is not the ability to behave well or badly, or whatever, but the ability to behave equally with everyone. In short, act as if you are in heaven, where there are no third-class passengers and all immortal souls are equal.
№ 428496   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:36
Last night, when I was wandering the streets, a girl spoke to me; I wanted to answer her the old way, but nothing came of it. Remember, you once told me that a child who has ended up in a foreign country, in a few weeks gets used to a foreign language, and forgets his own? Here I am - such a child in your country. I have forgotten my native language and now I can only speak yours.
№ 428495   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:36
- There I sold flowers, but I did not sell myself. Now you have made me a lady, and I can no longer trade anything but myself. You better not touch me.
№ 428494   Added Viker 29-09-2021 / 12:36
I want to save my soul and marry for money.
№ 415815   Added MegaMozg 26-03-2021 / 13:42
_ Oh, a whole chasm. It absorbs music, pictures, books, mountains, lakes, beautiful clothes, and a company of nice people - in this country you are deprived of all this if you have no money.
№ 415814   Added MegaMozg 26-03-2021 / 13:39
One cheeks and the other kisses her. One gets money and the other spends.
- I'm wondering which of us is more profitable than this deal?
- You. These people have been sitting in their office all their lives. You will have to endure it from lunch to morning breakfast. But most of that time you'll be sleeping. All day you will dispose of yourself at your own discretion. And you will spend his money. If this is too much for you, marry a captain of a long voyage.
№ 415813   Added MegaMozg 26-03-2021 / 13:36
Be surprised! At my age!
№ 415812   Added MegaMozg 26-03-2021 / 13:33
- Do you ever care, Captain Shotover?
- I was standing on the bridge for eighteen hours during the typhoon. Here, however, even more violently. But still, I can survive.
№ 415811   Added MegaMozg 26-03-2021 / 13:30
Just do not try to tell the truth there, no one will believe you.
№ 415810   Added MegaMozg 26-03-2021 / 13:27