George Bernard Shaw

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

...Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heaven, which is, as I tell you, the home of the masters of reality, and from earth, which is the home of the slaves of reality. The earth is a nursery in which men and women play at being heroes and heroines, saints and sinners; but they are dragged down from their fool__ paradise by their bodies: hunger and cold and thirst, age and decay and disease, death above all, make them slaves of reality: thrice a day meals must be eaten and digested: thrice a century a new generation must be engendered: ages of faith, of romance, and of science are all driven at last to have but one prayer, __ake me a healthy animal._ But here you escape this tyranny of the flesh; for here you are not an animal at all: you are a ghost, an appearance, an illusion, a convention, deathless, ageless: in a word, bodiless. There are no social questions here, no political questions, no religious questions, best of all, perhaps, no sanitary questions. Here you call your appearance beauty, your emotions love, your sentiments heroism, your aspirations virtue, just as you did on earth; but here there are no hard facts to contradict you, no ironic contrast of your needs with your pretensions, no human comedy, nothing but a perpetual romance, a universal melodrama. As our German friend put it in his poem, __he poetically nonsensical here is good sense; and the Eternal Feminine draws us ever upward and on...

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

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

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

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

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.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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