Dishonesty Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.”

George Bernard Shaw

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Dishonesty Divided Honest Honest person Honesty Men Persons Strain Vary

More by George Bernard Shaw

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

George Bernard Shaw

Image

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

George Bernard Shaw

Image

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

Image

“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

Image

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw

Image

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

Image

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

Image

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

Image

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

George Bernard Shaw

Image

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

Image

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

Image

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

George Bernard Shaw

Image

Explore all 1,640 George Bernard Shaw quotes

More Dishonesty quotes

The greatest gift you can give to those around you is honesty. Sometimes honest words may sting the heart, but dishonesty pierces deep into…

Nishan Panwar

Image

Telling me lies is easier for you than to tell me the truth? Well me not trusting you is easier than getting hurt by…

Anonymous

Image

Cheating is like eating fast food. You do it, you enjoy it, and then you end up feeling like shit.

Ritu Ghatourey

Image

“If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.”

Matshona Dhliwayo

Image

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Dale Carnegie

Image

Excuses are the best friend of a lie, and leaving information out are its brother.

Jamie Skinner

Image

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

Criss Jami

Image

Some people don't like telling the truth... And some people can't handle hearing it.

Anonymous

Image

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

Tim LaHaye