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
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.”
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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
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
Act III http://books.google.com/books?id=3wAOAQAAMAAJ
Forrás: 1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
Forrás: Man and Superman
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.”
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)
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
1910s
Forrás: Overruled (1912)