I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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George Bernard Shaw
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About George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literat…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by George Bernard ShawThe best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.