Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Most people do not pray they only beg.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they cant find them make them.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they cant find them make them.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.