George Bernard Shaw

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”

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

“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

“My reputation grows with every failure.”

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

“I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.”

“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”

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

“An index is a great leveller.”

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.”

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”