George Bernard Shaw

“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collecti...

“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.”

“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”

“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.”

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

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

“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”

“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.”

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”

“It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.”