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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.
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.
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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
“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”
Act II; sometimes paraphrased as: The customs of your tribe are not laws of nature.
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
Variante: Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Contexte: THEODOTUS: Caesar: you are a stranger here, and not conversant with our laws. The kings and queens of Egypt may not marry except with their own royal blood. Ptolemy and Cleopatra are born king and consort just as they are born brother and sister.
BRITANNUS (shocked): Caesar: this is not proper.
THEODOTUS (outraged): How!
CAESAR (recovering his self-possession): Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. II, preface (1898)
1890s
“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.”
Widely attributed to Shaw begin31 (187ning in the 1940s, esp. after appearing in the November 1942 Reader’s Digest, the quotation is actually a variant of "Indeed, in many respects, she [Mrs. Otis] was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" from Oscar Wilde's 1887 short story "The Canterville Ghost".
Misattributed
Variante: The English and the Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”
Initially attributed to Cyrus S. Ching in Time, Vol. 56 (1950), p. 21.
Misattributed
Variante: Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
“Shall I turn up the light for you?
No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”
George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House
Source: Heartbreak House
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
George Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Crofts, Act III
Variante: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”
George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara
Source: Major Barbara
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”
Pt. V; see also the later phrasing of Malcolm Fraser, "life wasn't meant to be easy"
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
#110
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
