Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

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

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

I want to be all used up when I die.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

To be a champion you must live like one.

He who has never hoped can never despair

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

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.