Джордж Бернард Шоу: Цитаты на английском языке

Вариант: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

#124
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Источник: Man and Superman

Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Вариант: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Контексте: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Act II
Источник: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Контексте: Everything is possible: everything. Listen. I am old. I am the old serpent, older than Adam, older than Eve. I remember Lilith, who came before Adam and Eve. I was her darling as I am yours. She was alone: there was no man with her. She saw death as you saw it when the fawn fell; and she knew then that she must find out how to renew herself and cast the skin like me. She had a mighty will: she strove and strove and willed and willed for more moons than there are leaves on all the trees of the garden. Her pangs were terrible: her groans drove sleep from Eden. She said it must never be again: that the burden of renewing life was past bearing: that it was too much for one. And when she cast the skin, lo! there was not one new Lilith but two: one like herself, the other like Adam. You were the one: Adam was the other.

Jesus, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Контексте: The kingdom of God is striving to come. The empire that looks back in terror shall give way to the kingdom that looks forward with hope. Terror drives men mad: hope and faith give them divine wisdom. The men whom you fill with fear will stick at no evil and perish in their sin: the men whom I fill with faith shall inherit the earth. I say to you Cast out fear. Speak no more vain things to me about the greatness of Rome. … You, standing for Rome, are the universal coward: I, standing for the kingdom of God, have braved everything, lost everything, and won an eternal crown.

#25
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Источник: Man and Superman

#1
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Act III
Источник: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)

Источник: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady