George Bernard Shaw

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.