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
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
“Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.”
#28
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Hotchkiss
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.”
Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923) - Full text online http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200811h.html
1920s
What is the New Element in the Norwegian School?
1890s, Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891; 1913)
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
Act IV
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.”
#88
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Franklyn, in Pt. II : The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.”
The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1908)
1900s
Lilith, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Preface, Paul
1910s, Androcles and the Lion (1913)
“Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.”
Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”
As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later
“Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.”
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
“The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.”
From Why You Should Never be a Christian (1987) by Ishaq 'Kunle Sanni and Dawood Ayodele Amoo.
Misattributed
“Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
Act II
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.”
You Never Can Tell, Act IV
1890s
“No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.”
#116
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“B: What do you think what a person I am?”
"The role of the character initiating the proposal in this anecdote has been assigned to George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson and others. However, the earliest example of this basic story found by QI did not spotlight any of the persons just listed [...]
[...] QI hypothesizes that this anecdote began as a fictional tale that was intended to be humorous with an edge of antagonism. The story was retold for decades. Famous men were substituted into the role of the individual making the proposition. Occasionally, the individual who received the proposition was also described as famous, but typically she remained unidentified.
[...] In January 1937 the syndicated newspaper columnist O. O. McIntyre printed a version of the anecdote that he says was sent to him as a newspaper clipping. This tale featured a powerful Canadian-British media magnate and politician named Max Aitken who was also referred to as Lord Beaverbrook [MJLB]":
Someone sends me a clipping from Columnist Lyons with this honey:
“They are telling this of Lord Beaverbrook and a visiting Yankee actress. In a game of hypothetical questions, Beaverbrook asked the lady: ‘Would you live with a stranger if he paid you one million pounds?’ She said she would. ‘And if be paid you five pounds?’ The irate lady fumed: ‘Five pounds. What do you think I am?’ Beaverbrook replied: ‘We’ve already established that. Now we are trying to determine the degree.”
Quote investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/ cited 2013-07-10
Misattributed