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
1890s
Forrás: The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890-1894 being criticisms contributed week by week to The World (New York: Vienna House, 1973)
“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
Forrás: The Apple Cart
“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”
New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize
1930s
1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
Kontextus: The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
Forrás: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 121
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Hesketh Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, 1942
1940s and later