Heartbreak House Quotes

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Shall I turn up the light for you?

No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat?
Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“People don't have their virtues and vices in sets: they have them anyhow: all mixed.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“HECTOR
Well, I don't mean to be drowned like a rat in a trap. I still have the will to live. What am I to do?

CAPT. SHOTOVER
Do? Nothing simpler. Learn your business as an Englishman.

HECTOR
And what may my business as an Englishman be, pray?

CAPT. SHOTOVER
Navigation. Learn it and live; or leave it and be damned.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Lady Utterword: What a lovely night! It seems made for us. Hector: The night takes no interest in us. What are we to the night?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Those who do not know how to live must make a Merit of Dying”
― Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Люди старого уклада думают, что у человека может существовать душа без денег. Они думают, что чем меньше у тебя денег, тем больше души. А молодежь в наше время иного мнения. Душа, видите ли, очень дорого обходится. Содержать ее стоит гораздо дороже, чем, скажем, автомобиль. Она поглощает и музыку, и картины, и книги, и горы, и озера, и красивые наряды, и общество приятных людей, - в этой стране вы лишены всего этого, если у вас нет денег. Вот потому-то наши души так изголодались.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“-Что за непонятная манера вести себя? Что с ним такое, с этим человеком?
-У него разбивается сердце, вот и все.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“Неужели я разбила ваше сердце? Я не знала, что оно у вас есть. Разве я могла это знать?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“- Но как можно любить лгуна?

- Не знаю. Но, к счастью, оказывается можно. Иначе в мире было бы очень немного любви.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House

“If she comes, I’m not at home. If she wants anything, let her take it. If she asks for me, let her be informed that I am exceedingly old and I have totally forgotten her.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House