Джордж Бернард Шоу: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 9)

“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.”

“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”

“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”

“I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum”

“Shall I turn up the light for you?

No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”

“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

“But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person’s thumb are
two different things.”

“A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”