George Bernard Shaw

Property is organized robbery.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.