GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"Whisky is liquid sunshine."

"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere."

"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"A drunken man is happier than a sober one."

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby."

"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

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

"I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire."

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

"I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals."

"I do not know what I think until I write it."

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling."

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

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."

"Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day."

"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty."

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."

"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means"

"My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution."

"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated."

"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

"The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are."

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."