We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood;...

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood;...

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of...

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of...

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were...

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of...

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

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...

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never...

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never...

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood...

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward...

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward...

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...