Author of quotes: George Bernard Shaw. Page 3

I know that as soon as I allow a woman to get closer to me, she immediately becomes jealous, nitpicking, spying and generally poisoning my existence.

Have you ever seen a man be decent in matters involving women?

Our century is the century of the upstarts. People start in Kentishtown, living on eighty pounds a year, and end up in Park Lane with a hundred thousand in annual income. They would like to forget about Kentishtown, but he reminds of himself, as soon as they open their mouths.

- Rome itself does not create art, but it buys and takes it everywhere in the countries where it is created.
- What? Rome doesn't create art? And the world isn't art? War is not an art? Is the state not an art? Civilization is not art? All this we give you in exchange for a few trinkets.

It was only as a slave of Caesar that I gained true freedom.

He who has never known hope cannot despair. In a bad or good hour - Caesar always looks into the face of his fate.

Where betrayal, lies and dishonor go unpunished, society is like an arena full of wild beasts tearing each other apart.

When I return to Rome, I will enact laws against these excesses and even make sure that these laws are carried out.

When a fool does something of which he is ashamed, he always declares that it is his duty.

Not a single person goes into battle to be killed.

- If it does not flatter humanity, it is burned.

- Are you ready to destroy the past?
- Yes. And I will build the future on its ruins.

- Is it possible for the conqueror of the world, Caesar, to waste time on such trifles as our taxes?
- My friend, taxes for the conqueror of the world - the most important thing.

Women easily deceive him. Their eyes blind him. He sees them not as they are, but as he wants to see them.