Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Adulthood Quotes, Affection Quotes

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides,...

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides,...

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you...

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him...

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him...

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

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

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's...

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's...

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...