George Bernard Shaw

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

“Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.”

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

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

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”

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

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

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

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

“Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

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

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

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”

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

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

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

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

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

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