4 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Integrity

George Bernard Shaw quotes on integrity

49. 'If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. Corrupt successes, disgraceful failures, or sheeplike vegetation are all it has to offer. I prefer Art, which gives me a sixth sense of beauty, with self-respect: perhaps also an immortal reputation in return for honest endeavour in a labour of love.'

52. 'A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.'

127. What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

143. It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. [...] What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?