Quotes from George Bernard Shaw

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.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes