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.“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.”
Widely attributed to Shaw begin31 (187ning in the 1940s, esp. after appearing in the November 1942 Reader’s Digest, the quotation is actually a variant of "Indeed, in many respects, she [Mrs. Otis] was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" from Oscar Wilde's 1887 short story "The Canterville Ghost".
Misattributed
Вариант: The English and the Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”
Initially attributed to Cyrus S. Ching in Time, Vol. 56 (1950), p. 21.
Misattributed
Вариант: Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara
Источник: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“Shall I turn up the light for you?
No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”
George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House
Источник: Heartbreak House
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession
Crofts, Act III
Вариант: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Источник: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)