George Bernard Shaw: Cytaty po angielsku
George Bernard Shaw był dramaturg i prozaik irlandzki, noblista. Cytaty po angielsku.“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”
Pt. V; see also the later phrasing of Malcolm Fraser, "life wasn't meant to be easy"
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
George Bernard Shaw Cezar i Kleopatra
Źródło: Caesar and Cleopatra
“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island…”
George Bernard Shaw Pigmalion. Romans w pięciu aktach
Źródło: Pygmalion
“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”
Killing For Sport, Preface (1914)
1910s
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The Serpent, in Pt. I : In the Beginning, Act I; this quote is sometimes misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy; it is often paraphrased slightly in a few different ways, including:
You see things as they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things as they never were and ask, "Why not?"
Wariant: You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?
Źródło: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart
The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
1920s
The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909): The Rejected Statement, Pt. I : The Limits to Toleration
1900s
"Rungs of the Ladder" http://books.google.com/books?id=HLpRc3rm5b8C, BBC Radio broadcast, 11 July 1932 <br class="br">1930s