Джордж Бернард Шоу: Цитаты на английском языке
Джордж Бернард Шоу было Британский писатель, романист, драматург, лауреат Нобелевской премии в области литературы, общественный деятель. Цитаты на английском языке.“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”
George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara
Источник: Major Barbara
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”
Pt. V; see also the later phrasing of Malcolm Fraser, "life wasn't meant to be easy"
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
George Bernard Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra
Источник: Caesar and Cleopatra
“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”
Killing For Sport, Preface (1914)
1910s
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The Serpent, in Pt. I : In the Beginning, Act I; this quote is sometimes misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy; it is often paraphrased slightly in a few different ways, including:
You see things as they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things as they never were and ask, "Why not?"
Вариант: You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?
Источник: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
1920s
The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909): The Rejected Statement, Pt. I : The Limits to Toleration
1900s
"Rungs of the Ladder" http://books.google.com/books?id=HLpRc3rm5b8C, BBC Radio broadcast, 11 July 1932 <br class="br">1930s