George Bernard Shaw

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”

“From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.”

“The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.”

“The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.”

“The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.”

“Most people do not pray; they only beg.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“Success covers a multitude of blunders.”

“All great truths began as blasphemies.”