George Bernard Shaw

“It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.”

“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”

“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.”

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”

“The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.”

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.”

“I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.”

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”