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

Topics: George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural...

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural...

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work...

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.