Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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

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

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the...

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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

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

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no...

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown...

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it...

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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

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

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very...

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very...

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

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

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

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me...

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me...

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.