Women Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.

— George Bernard Shaw

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

— George Bernard Shaw

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

— George Bernard Shaw

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

— George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

— George Bernard Shaw

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any…

— George Bernard Shaw

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

— George Bernard Shaw

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

— George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

— George Bernard Shaw

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

— George Bernard Shaw

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across…

— George Bernard Shaw

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.…

— George Bernard Shaw

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative…

— George Bernard Shaw

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

— George Bernard Shaw

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

— George Bernard Shaw

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

— George Bernard Shaw

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

— George Bernard Shaw

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth…

— George Bernard Shaw

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're…

— George Bernard Shaw

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his…

— George Bernard Shaw