It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
George Bernard ShawNot everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
George Bernard ShawI make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
George Bernard ShawWhen I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
George Bernard Shaw