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.“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.”
Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
“The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.”
#108
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.”
#125
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.”
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Preface to English Prisons Under Local Government http://books.google.com/books?id=81YwAAAAYAAJ by Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1922) <br class="br">1940s and later
“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”
"The Play of Ideas", New Statesman (6 May 1950)
1940s and later
Preface: "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy" http://www.enotalone.com/article/13714.html <br class="br">1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.”
#104
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
As quoted in Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith (1993). Originally from Bernard Shaw, The News Chronicle, “The Blackshirt Challenge,” (Jan. 1934)
1930s
As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later
“Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”
Источник: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 235
#101
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Interview (April 1935) in The Genuine Islam, Vol. 1, No. 8 (1936), as quoted at "A Shavian and a Theologian" at World Islamic Mission http://www.wimnet.org/articles/shaviantheo.htm <br class="br">Disputed
“In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.”
Ireland in the New Century (1904) by Horace Plunkett
Often quoted as: Irish history is something no Englishman should forget and no Irishman should remember.
Misattributed