George Bernard Shaw: Frasi in inglese

George Bernard Shaw era scrittore, drammaturgo e aforista irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“God is on the side of the big battalions.”

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George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s

“I don’t want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill…I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioner and say every 5 years or every 7 years…just put them there and say, ‘Sir or madam will you be kind enough to justify your existence…if you’re not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little bit more then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive. Because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.”

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“George Bernard Shaw reopens capital punishment controversy”, Paramount British Pictures (March 5, 1931)
1930s

“Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.”

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The Intelligent Woman's Guide: To Socialism and Capitalism, New York: NY, Brentano (1928) p. 670.
1920s

“Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.”

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1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)

“You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.”

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1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”

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1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

“The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.”

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1900s, Getting Married (1908)

“Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.”

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George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan

Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923) - Full text online http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200811h.html <br class="br">1920s

“I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. Think of what that means to a man.”

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George Bernard Shaw

Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

“The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.”

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What is the New Element in the Norwegian School?
1890s, Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891; 1913)

“A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.”

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George Bernard Shaw

Preface
1900s, John Bull's Other Island (1907)

“Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.”

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1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

“Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.”

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1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”

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George Bernard Shaw

Act IV
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)

“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good. Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.”

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George Bernard Shaw

Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)

“Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.”

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)