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“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
George Bernard Shaw Androcles and the Lion
Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
Source: 1910s, Androcles and the Lion (1913)
Contexte: The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
Source: Back to Methuselah
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
Annajanska (1919)
1910s
Source: Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
Source: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 37
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
Widely attributed to Shaw, this quotation is actually of unknown origin.
Misattributed
Variante: She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
#57
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
Everybody's Political What's What (1944), Ch. 30, p. 256
1940s and later
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra
Act III http://books.google.com/books?id=3wAOAQAAMAAJ <br class="br">Source: 1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
Source: Man and Superman
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Contexte: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House
O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
1910s
Source: Heartbreak House
“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”
Pt. V http://books.google.com/books?id=sUKiG0ghhb4C&q=%22Silence+is+the+most+perfect+expression+of+scorn%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage <br class="br">1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
