# Quote — George Bernard Shaw, Love Among The Artists

> Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

- Author: [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md)
- Book: [Love Among The Artists](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/love-among-the-artists.md)
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> Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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> I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.

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> Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.

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