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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: 428   citations 2   J'aime

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.
en
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

“Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.”

#28
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.”

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923) - Full text online http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200811h.html
1920s

“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”

Franklyn, in Pt. II : The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.”

The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1908)
1900s

“Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.”

Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“Happiness and Beauty are by-products.”

#102
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”

As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later

“The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.”

From Why You Should Never be a Christian (1987) by Ishaq 'Kunle Sanni and ‎Dawood Ayodele Amoo.
Misattributed

“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.”

George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell

You Never Can Tell, Act IV
1890s

“B: What do you think what a person I am?”

"The role of the character initiating the proposal in this anecdote has been assigned to George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson and others. However, the earliest example of this basic story found by QI did not spotlight any of the persons just listed [...]
[...] QI hypothesizes that this anecdote began as a fictional tale that was intended to be humorous with an edge of antagonism. The story was retold for decades. Famous men were substituted into the role of the individual making the proposition. Occasionally, the individual who received the proposition was also described as famous, but typically she remained unidentified.
[...] In January 1937 the syndicated newspaper columnist O. O. McIntyre printed a version of the anecdote that he says was sent to him as a newspaper clipping. This tale featured a powerful Canadian-British media magnate and politician named Max Aitken who was also referred to as Lord Beaverbrook [MJLB]":
Someone sends me a clipping from Columnist Lyons with this honey:
“They are telling this of Lord Beaverbrook and a visiting Yankee actress. In a game of hypothetical questions, Beaverbrook asked the lady: ‘Would you live with a stranger if he paid you one million pounds?’ She said she would. ‘And if be paid you five pounds?’ The irate lady fumed: ‘Five pounds. What do you think I am?’ Beaverbrook replied: ‘We’ve already established that. Now we are trying to determine the degree.”
Quote investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/ cited 2013-07-10
Misattributed

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