Quote #123
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.[1]
More from George Bernard Shaw
- Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
- Happiness and beauty are by-products.
- Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
- Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
- Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
- What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.