Famous Quotes

"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."

George Bernard Shaw on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by George Bernard Shaw

• "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

• "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

• "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

• "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."