George Bernard Shaw: Citáty v angličtine

George Bernard Shaw bol írsky dramatik. Citáty v angličtine.
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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

Varianta: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Varianta: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Kontext: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”

George Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island

Act II
Zdroj: 1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

“Everything is possible: everything.”

The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Kontext: Everything is possible: everything. Listen. I am old. I am the old serpent, older than Adam, older than Eve. I remember Lilith, who came before Adam and Eve. I was her darling as I am yours. She was alone: there was no man with her. She saw death as you saw it when the fawn fell; and she knew then that she must find out how to renew herself and cast the skin like me. She had a mighty will: she strove and strove and willed and willed for more moons than there are leaves on all the trees of the garden. Her pangs were terrible: her groans drove sleep from Eden. She said it must never be again: that the burden of renewing life was past bearing: that it was too much for one. And when she cast the skin, lo! there was not one new Lilith but two: one like herself, the other like Adam. You were the one: Adam was the other.

“The kingdom of God is striving to come. The empire that looks back in terror shall give way to the kingdom that looks forward with hope.”

Jesus, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Kontext: The kingdom of God is striving to come. The empire that looks back in terror shall give way to the kingdom that looks forward with hope. Terror drives men mad: hope and faith give them divine wisdom. The men whom you fill with fear will stick at no evil and perish in their sin: the men whom I fill with faith shall inherit the earth. I say to you Cast out fear. Speak no more vain things to me about the greatness of Rome. … You, standing for Rome, are the universal coward: I, standing for the kingdom of God, have braved everything, lost everything, and won an eternal crown.

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

#25
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Zdroj: Man and Superman

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara

Act III
Zdroj: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)