"All great art and literature is propaganda...." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Success covers a multitude of blunders.”

“I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.”

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.”

“Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”

“Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading”

“I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.”

“When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?”