George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Men Quotes

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.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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