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George Bernard Shaw ír drámaíró. Munkásságát 1925-ben irodalmi Nobel-díjjal honorálták. William Shakespeare után az ő műveit játsszák leggyakrabban az angol nyelvű színházakban. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. július 1856 – 2. november 1950
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George Bernard Shaw idézet: „Hogy a Nemzeti Galériából melyik festményt menteném ki, ha tűz lenne? Az ajtóhoz legközelebb esőt, természetesen.”

„Soha nem másztam semmiféle szamárlétrán. Sikereimet pusztán a gravitációnak köszönhetem.”

Csitt! Egy fehér lovat hallok közeledni!" c. könyvből (Biográf Kiadó, 1996)

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George Bernard Shaw: Idézetek angolul

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”

George Bernard Shaw You Never Can Tell

You Never Can Tell, Act II
1890s

“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”

George Bernard Shaw The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Preface (1910)
1910s

“I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.”

George Bernard Shaw The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, Act 2 (1934)
1940s and later

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”

Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895
1890s

“George Bernard Shaw is said to have told W. S. C.:
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend—if you have one.
W. S. C. to G. B. S.:
Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second—if there is one.”

Version given in Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill’s Wit by Kay Halle, 1966
Apocryphal, from 1946. See discussion at Winston Churchill#Misattributed, and detailed discussion at “ Here are Two Tickets for the Opening of My Play. Bring a Friend—If You Have One http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/25/two-tickets-shaw/”, Garson O’Toole, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/, (March 25, 2012)
Misattributed

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=u4xiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22You+cannot+be+a+hero+without+being+a+coward%22&pg=PR13#v=onepage
1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

“Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.”

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

“Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.”

The Daily Chronicle on the 7 March 1917 https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/george-bernard-shaw-joyriding-on-the-front.
1910s, The Technique of War (1917)