"Woman reduces us all to the common..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.”

“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”

“What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.”

“The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of what men are, instead of just being what you are, which is just a pathetic creature, but still.”

“Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.”

“You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.”

“I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.”

“An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.”

“Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.”