George Bernard Shaw híres idézetei
George Bernard Shaw Idézetek az emberekről
George Bernard Shaw idézetek
„Soha nem másztam semmiféle szamárlétrán. Sikereimet pusztán a gravitációnak köszönhetem.”
Csitt! Egy fehér lovat hallok közeledni!" c. könyvből (Biográf Kiadó, 1996)
George Bernard Shaw: Idézetek angolul
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby”
Forrás: Pygmalion
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Változat: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
#124
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Forrás: Man and Superman
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Változat: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Kontextus: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
Act II
Forrás: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)
“Everything is possible: everything.”
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Kontextus: Everything is possible: everything. Listen. I am old. I am the old serpent, older than Adam, older than Eve. I remember Lilith, who came before Adam and Eve. I was her darling as I am yours. She was alone: there was no man with her. She saw death as you saw it when the fawn fell; and she knew then that she must find out how to renew herself and cast the skin like me. She had a mighty will: she strove and strove and willed and willed for more moons than there are leaves on all the trees of the garden. Her pangs were terrible: her groans drove sleep from Eden. She said it must never be again: that the burden of renewing life was past bearing: that it was too much for one. And when she cast the skin, lo! there was not one new Lilith but two: one like herself, the other like Adam. You were the one: Adam was the other.
Jesus, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Kontextus: The kingdom of God is striving to come. The empire that looks back in terror shall give way to the kingdom that looks forward with hope. Terror drives men mad: hope and faith give them divine wisdom. The men whom you fill with fear will stick at no evil and perish in their sin: the men whom I fill with faith shall inherit the earth. I say to you Cast out fear. Speak no more vain things to me about the greatness of Rome. … You, standing for Rome, are the universal coward: I, standing for the kingdom of God, have braved everything, lost everything, and won an eternal crown.
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
#25
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Forrás: Man and Superman
#1
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”
Act III
Forrás: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, Chapter 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=ys13gZliXFAC (1928)
1920s
The Two Pioneers
1890s, Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891; 1913)
“Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?”
Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
#17
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
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
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
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