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.
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“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”

George Bernard Shaw

Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895
1890s

“George Bernard Shaw is said to have told W. S. C.:
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend—if you have one.
W. S. C. to G. B. S.:
Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second—if there is one.”

George Bernard Shaw

Version given in Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill’s Wit by Kay Halle, 1966 <br class="br">Apocryphal, from 1946. See discussion at Winston Churchill#Misattributed, and detailed discussion at “ Here are Two Tickets for the Opening of My Play. Bring a Friend—If You Have One http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/25/two-tickets-shaw/”, Garson O’Toole, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/, (March 25, 2012) <br class="br">Misattributed

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=u4xiAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22You+cannot+be+a+hero+without+being+a+coward%22&amp;pg=PR13#v=onepage <br class="br">1900s, John Bull&#x27;s Other Island (1907)

“Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.”

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

“The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.”

George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”

George Bernard Shaw

#83
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.”

George Bernard Shaw

The Daily Chronicle on the 7 March 1917 https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/george-bernard-shaw-joyriding-on-the-front. <br class="br">1910s, The Technique of War (1917)