George Bernard Shaw

"Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family."

"The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error."

"I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian . It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet."

"Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?"

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now."