We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
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