"Heartbreak House" Quotes
"Heartbreak House" by George Bernard Shaw is a satirical play that explores the moral and social decay of the British upper class during World War I through the interactions of a group of eccentric characters in a country house.
plays | 160 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
