George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?_x000D_ George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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