Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Weitere Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Zum Autor"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
"Youth is wasted on the young."