Джордж Бернард Шоу: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 8)

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”

“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.”

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation”

“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination”

“The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.”

“The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.”

“I do not know what I think until I write it.”

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”

“I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.”

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

“A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.”

“Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.”

“I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”