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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

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Forrás: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

Widely attributed to Shaw, this quotation is actually of unknown origin.
Misattributed
Változat: She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

#57
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Forrás: Man and Superman

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

Everybody's Political What's What (1944), Ch. 30, p. 256
1940s and later

“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”

George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra

Act III http://books.google.com/books?id=3wAOAQAAMAAJ
Forrás: 1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”

As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Kontextus: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House

O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
1910s
Forrás: Heartbreak House

“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”

Pt. V http://books.google.com/books?id=sUKiG0ghhb4C&q=%22Silence+is+the+most+perfect+expression+of+scorn%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)