Quote #35

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
  2. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
  3. You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
  4. The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
  5. An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
  6. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the pe…
  7. I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
  8. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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