George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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.

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

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

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

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

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

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

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.