Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
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."
"It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date."
"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change."