No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days ?

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish

There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply as by eating macaroni instead of mutton chops.