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George Bernard Shaw est un critique musical, dramaturge, essayiste, auteur de pièces de théâtre et scénariste irlandais. Acerbe et provocateur, pacifiste et anticonformiste, il obtient le prix Nobel de littérature en 1925. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. juillet 1856 – 2. novembre 1950
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George Bernard Shaw citations célèbres

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“La vie égalise tous les hommes; la mort en révèle les éminents.”

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.
en
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.
en
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.
en
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

“Il y a cinquante manières de dire Oui, et cinq cents de dire Non, mais il n'y a qu'une manière de les écrire.”

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

“L'homme raisonnable s'adapte au monde; l'homme déraisonnable essaye d'adapter le monde à lui. Tout progrès dépend donc de l'homme déraisonnable.”

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

“La bureaucratie consiste en fonctionnaires; l'aristocratie, en idoles; la démocratie, en idolâtres.”

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

“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”

Widely attributed to Shaw from the 1970s onward, but not known to exist in his published works. It is in keeping with some of his sardonic statements about the purposes and effectiveness of schools. First known attribution in print is in Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner's Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1971), "G. B. Shaw's line that the only time his education was interrupted was when he was in school captures the sense of this alienation."
Attributed

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.”

George Bernard Shaw The Doctor's Dilemma

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=aniaAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+who+is+occupied+in+doing+a+very+difficult+thing+and+doing+it+very+well+ever+loses+his+self-respect%22&pg=PR22#v=onepage
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variante: No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

“But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”

"The Living Pictures", The Saturday Review, LXXIX (April 6, 1895), 443, reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932). Vol. 1. London: Constable & Co. 79-86
1890s

“You can't make a man a Christian unless you first make him believe he is a sinner.”

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), p. 17
Misattributed

“A: How about $1?”

Misattributed

“I am a communist, but not a member of the Communist Party. Stalin is a first rate Fabian. I am one of the founders of Fabianism and as such very friendly to Russia.”

As quoted in the Evening Herald in Dublin, Ireland (February 3, 1948), reprinted in Economic Council Letter, Issue 278, Part 397 (1952), p. 1807 https://books.google.com/books?id=qtAeAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=first+rate+Fabian
1940s and later

“A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people’s time to look after them.”

Shaw’s Lecture to the London’s Eugenics Education Society, The Daily Express, (March 4, 1910), quoted in Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency: Ideology and Fiction, Evelyn Cobley, University of Toronto Press (2009) p. 159
1910s

“There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

Confucius, in Pt. III : The Thing Happens
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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