George Bernard Shaw: Frasi in inglese

George Bernard Shaw era scrittore, drammaturgo e aforista irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”

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George Bernard Shaw Pigmalione

Origine: Pygmalion

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

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George Bernard Shaw Fanny's First Play

Origine: Fanny's First Play

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

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George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V : As Far as Thought Can Reach
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

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George Bernard Shaw

#107
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

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George Bernard Shaw Misalliance

Origine: Misalliance

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

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George Bernard Shaw

Origine: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation”

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George Bernard Shaw

“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”

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George Bernard Shaw Pigmalione

Origine: Pygmalion