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
#55
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Similar remarks are also attributed to Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and to Mark Twain
Disputed
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
#172
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Notes
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, Chapter 82 http://books.google.com/books?id=ys13gZliXFAC (1928)
1920s
Interview "Who I Am, and What I Think", in Frank Harris's periodical The Candid Friend (May 1901), reprinted in Sixteen Self Sketches, 1949, p. 53; quoted in Desmond King-Hele, Shelley: His Thought and Work, 1984, p. 42 https://books.google.it/books?id=V5KvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42
1900s
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
Three Plays for Puritans, Preface (1900)
1900s
Preface; Cruelty's Excuses
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
#158
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
#105
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
#65
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.”
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)
Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.”
Pilate, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
#162
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. xxxi
Act I
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality.”
Act V
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
“I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.”
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)