I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did,...

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances....

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances....

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it...

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of...

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of...

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of...

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of...

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people...

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

But I am not a hater.

But I am not a hater.

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...