The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent’s first duty.
* George Bernard Shaw
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
* George Bernard Shaw
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
* George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
* George Bernard Shaw
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit : to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
* George Bernard Shaw
The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling ; to the former, infinite.
* George Bernard Shaw
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge : it is more dangerous than ignorance.
* George Bernard Shaw
Moderation is never applauded for its own sake.
* George Bernard Shaw
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
* George Bernard Shaw
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
* George Bernard Shaw
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
* George Bernard Shaw
Greatness is the secular name for Divinity : both mean simply what lies beyond us.
* George Bernard Shaw
Those who understand evil pardon it : those who resent it destroy it.
* George Bernard Shaw
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
* George Bernard Shaw
No man dares say so much of what he thinks as to appear to himself an extremist.
* George Bernard Shaw
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