George Bernard Shaw: Citáty v angličtine (page 18)

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“Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.”

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Letter from G. Bernard Shaw to a friend, “Bernard Shaw's Defence of Mussolini,” (Feb, 7, 1927)
1920s

“I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.”

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Praed, Act IV
1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)

“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”

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Preface
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

“It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.”

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Preface
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

“There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.”

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1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

“Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.”

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1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

“Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.”

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Preface
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

“If parents would only realize how they bore their children!”

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Episode I
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

“Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.”

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The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.”

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Quote about Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia in Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith (1993) p. 267.
1920s

“Well, I tell you again to get rid of your Constitution. But I suppose you won't do it. You have a good president and you have a bad Constitution, and the bad Constitution gets the better of the good President all the time. The end of it will be is that you might as well have an English Prime Minister.”

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Newsreel interview by George Bernard Shaw entitled “Various Scenes with George Bernard Shaw,” Fox Movietone Newsreel (1931), referring to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency
1910s

“The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.”

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.”

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Act III
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

“The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.”

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”

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George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=T70Ahd88jSMC&q=%22It+is+difficult+if+not+impossible+for+most+people+to+think+otherwise+than+in+the+fashion+of+their+own+period%22&pg=PA46#v=onepage to Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

George Bernard Shaw citát: “The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.”

“The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.”

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As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later

“The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.”

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letter, 24 June 1930, to Frank Harris "To Frank Harris on Sex in Biography" Sixteen Self Sketches (1949)
1940s and later

“Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.”

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Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

“I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.”

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Zdroj: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.”

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)