George Bernard Shaw citations célèbres
“La vie égalise tous les hommes; la mort en révèle les éminents.”
Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.
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Man And Superman, 1903
“Celui qui donne de l'argent qu'il n'a pas gagné est généreux avec le travail d'autrui.”
He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.
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Man And Superman, 1903
“Méfie-toi de l'homme dont le Dieu est dans les cieux.”
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Man And Superman, 1903
George Bernard Shaw Citations
“Celui qui peut, agit. Celui qui ne peut pas, donne des leçons.”
He who can, does. He who can't, teaches.
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Man And Superman, 1903
“Ne fais pas aux autres ce que tu voudrais qu'ils te fassent. Leurs goûts peuvent être différents.”
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Man And Superman, 1903
“Ce que personne ne croit a besoin d'être démontré aussi souvent que possible.”
A thing nobody believes cannot be proven too often.
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Plays Unpleasant, 1931
“L'art du gouvernement consiste à organiser l'idolâtrie.”
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
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Man And Superman, 1903
There are fifty ways of saying Yes, and five hundred of saying No, but only one way of writing them down.
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Plays Unpleasant, 1931
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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Man And Superman, 1903
The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.
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Man And Superman, 1903
George Bernard Shaw: Citations en anglais
“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.”
#125
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.”
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Preface to English Prisons Under Local Government http://books.google.com/books?id=81YwAAAAYAAJ by Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1922)
1940s and later
“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”
"The Play of Ideas", New Statesman (6 May 1950)
1940s and later
#23
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Preface: "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy" http://www.enotalone.com/article/13714.html
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.”
#104
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
As quoted in Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith (1993). Originally from Bernard Shaw, The News Chronicle, “The Blackshirt Challenge,” (Jan. 1934)
1930s
As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later
“Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”
Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 235
#101
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Interview (April 1935) in The Genuine Islam, Vol. 1, No. 8 (1936), as quoted at "A Shavian and a Theologian" at World Islamic Mission http://www.wimnet.org/articles/shaviantheo.htm
Disputed
“In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.”
Ireland in the New Century (1904) by Horace Plunkett
Often quoted as: Irish history is something no Englishman should forget and no Irishman should remember.
Misattributed
“We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.”
Everybody's Political What's What http://books.google.com/books?id=JSwBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22we+have+no+reason+to+suppose+that+we+are+the+Creator's+last+word%22&pg=PA234#v=onepage (1944)
1940s and later
Speech at New York (11 April 1933)
1930s
“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.”
1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
“The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.”
As Quoted in London Morning Post, (Dec. 3, 1925)
1920s
“God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!”
The Apple Cart (1928), Act II
1920s
“Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.”
#87
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Ellie Dunn, Act II
1910s, Heartbreak House (1919)
The He-Ancient, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)