Shaw

Famous quotes containing the word shaw:

    In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
    —French proverb.

    George Bernard Shaw adapted this proverb in Heartbreak House, act 2: “One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.”

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)