George Bernard Shaw

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

All I want to do is change the world.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.