George Bernard Shaw idézet

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„Egy hibákkal teli élet nemcsak sokkal tiszteletreméltóbb, hanem sokkal hasznosabb is, mint egy olyan élet, ami semmittevéssel telik el.”

„A legnagyobb baj a kommunikációval az az illúzió, hogy létrejött.”

„A pesszimista olyan ember, aki azt gondolja, hogy mindenki olyan kellemetlen, mint ő maga, és utálja őket emiatt.”

„Az állatok a barátaim... és én nem eszem meg a barátaimat.”

„Szabályossá tegye, hogy soha ne adjon gyermekeknek olyan könyvet, amelyet ön nem olvasna el.”

„Az ésszerű ember alkalmazkodik a világhoz: az ésszerűtlen ember továbbra is azzal próbálkozik, hogy megpróbálja a világot önmagához igazítani. Ezért minden előrelépés az ésszerűtlen embertől függ.”

„Egy mérsékelten becsületes ember, akinek mérsékelten hű a felesége, akik mindketten mérsékelten hisznek és egy mérsékelten egészséges házban laknak - ez a középosztály végeredményben.”

„A nők olyanok, mint a cigaretta. Eleinte igen kellemesek, de aztán a sok lerakódott méreg nagyon felgyülemlik az emberben.”

„Ha egy ostoba ember szégyelli, amit csinál, mindig a kötelességére hivatkozik.”

„Nevetséges dolog azt állítani, hogy az emberek jók, vagy rosszak, az emberek vagy kellemesek, vagy unalmasak.”

„Mártírnak lenni az egyetlen mód arra, hogy híresek legyünk bármiféle tehetség nélkül.”

„Anglia és Amerika az a két ország, melyeket a közös nyelv különböztet meg.”

„Bárcsak a szülők észrevennék, hogy mennyire untatják a gyermekeiket!”

„Csak úgy kerülheted el azt, hogy nyomorúságosnak érezd magad, ha nincs elég időd azon töprengeni, boldog vagy-e vagy sem.”

„Nem azért felejtünk el játszani, mert megöregszünk, hanem attól öregszünk meg, hogy elfelejtünk játszani.”

„Az a kormány, amelyik kirabolja Pétert, hogy Pálnak fizessen, mindig Pál támogatásától függ.”

„Egy nő még akkor is emlékszik az első csókra, amikor a férfi már az utolsót is elfelejtette.”

„A nő az egyetlen olyan egérfogó, mely után fut az egér.”

„A napilapok úgy látszik, képtelenek különbséget tenni egy biciklibaleset és a civilizáció összeomlása között.”

„Veszélyes őszintének lenni, hacsak nem vagy emellett hülye is.”

„A gyilkosság a kritika végletes megnyilvánulási formája.”

„A tehetséges gyerekek szülei mindig hisznek az örökléstanban.”

„Gyakran idézek önmagamtól. Ez színesebbé teszi a társalgást.”

„Az ifjúkor csodálatos! Micsoda bűn gyerekekre elvesztegetni!”

„A demokrácia arról biztosít, hogy ne kormányozzanak minket jobban, mint ahogy megérdemeljük.”

„Hogy a Nemzeti Galériából melyik festményt menteném ki, ha tűz lenne? Az ajtóhoz legközelebb esőt, természetesen.”

„A divat szándékosan terjesztett járvány.”

„Minden szakma a laikusok elleni összeesküvés.”

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

„Az élet nem arról szól, hogy megtaláld magad. Az élet önmagad megalkotásáról szól.”

„Két tragédia van az életben. Az egyik, ha hőn óhajtott vágyunk nem teljesül. A másik, ha teljesül.”

„Azok, akik nem tudják meggondolni magukat, semmit sem változtathatnak meg.”

„Nincs őszintébb szeretet, mint az étel szeretete.”

„A hazug büntetése nem az, hogy nem hisznek neki, hanem az, hogy senki másnak sem tud hinni.”

„A siker nem azt jelenti, hogy soha nem hibázunk. A siker az, hogy nem követjük el kétszer ugyanazt a hibát.”

„Én úgy viccelek, hogy az igazat mondom. Ez a legviccesebb vicc a világon.”

„Nem a múltunk felidézése tesz minket bölccsé, hanem a jövőnkért viselt felelősség.”

„Óvakodjatok a hamis tudástól; veszélyesebb, mint a tudatlanság.”

„A fiatalság a fiatalokra pazarolódik.”

„Miért fogadjunk el szexuális tanácsokat a pápától? Ha ő tud is erről valamit, akkor nem kellene!”

„Számos lehetőség kínálkozik, ha úgy döntünk, hogy cselekszünk, és nem csak reagálunk.”

„Semmit sem tud; és azt hiszi, hogy mindent tud. Ez egyértelműen politikai karrierre utal.”

„A hazafiság alapvetően az a meggyőződés, hogy egy adott ország a legjobb a világon, mert ott születtél...”

„fasykalap geciszopo balfasz kurva az ut szelen leszopta a ciganynak a faszat mert egy budos feka kurva”

“Cusins: Call you poverty a crime?
Undershaft: The worst of crimes. All the other crimes are virtues beside it: all the other dishonors are chivalry itself by comparison. Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it. What you call crime is nothing: a murder here and a theft there, a blow now and a curse then: what do they matter? they are only the accidents and illnesses of life: there are not fifty genuine professional criminals in London. But there are millions of poor people, abject people, dirty people, ill fed, ill clothed people. They poison us morally and physically: they kill the happiness of society: they force us to do away with our own liberties and to organize unnatural cruelties for fear they should rise against us and drag us down into their abyss. Only fools fear crime: we all fear poverty.”

“Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.”

“Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.”

“I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.”

“The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.”

“Shaw: Madam, would you sleep with me for a million pounds?
Actress: My goodness, Well, I'd certainly think about it
Shaw: Would you sleep with me for a pound?
Actress: Certainly not! What kind of woman do you think I am?!
Shaw: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling over the price.”

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

“The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”

“That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.”

“When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of “Orthodoxy, True and False” and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.”

“Again, there is the illusion of "increased command over Nature," meaning that cotton is cheap and that ten miles of country road on a bicycle have replaced four on foot. But even if man's increased command over Nature included any increased command over himself (the only sort of command relevant to his evolution into a higher being), the fact remains that it is only by running away from the increased command over Nature to country places where Nature is still in primitive command over Man that he can recover from the effects of the smoke, the stench, the foul air, the overcrowding, the racket, the ugliness, the dirt which the cheap cotton costs us.”

“Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.”

“I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. It was Shelley who first opened my eyes to the savagery of my diet.”

“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”

“There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.”

“The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.”

“He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.”

“You are so careful of your boy's morals, knowing how troublesome they may be, that you keep him away from the Venus of Milo only to find him in the arms of the scullery maid or someone much worse. You decide that the Hermes of Praxiteles and Wagner's Tristan are not suited for young girls; and your daughter marries somebody appallingly unlike either Hermes or Tristan solely to escape from your parental protection. You have not stifled a single passion nor averted a single danger: you have depraved the passions by starving them, and broken down all the defences which so effectively protect children brought up in freedom.”

“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.”

“It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.”

“Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.”

“All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.”

“Society, with all its prisons and bayonets and whips and ostracisms and starvations, is powerless in the face of the Anarchist who is prepared to sacrifice his own life in the battle with it. Our natural safety from the cheap and devastating explosives which every Russian student can make … lies in the fact that brave and resolute men, when they are rascals, will not risk their skins for the good of humanity, and, when they are sympathetic enough to care for humanity, abhor murder, and never commit it until their consciences are outraged beyond endurance. The remedy is, then, simply not to outrage their consciences.”

“All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.”

“You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.”

“Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.”

“Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.”

“Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.”

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”