"Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”

“The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.”

“Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.”

“No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.”

“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

“A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.”

“I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.”

“No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”

“You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.”