George Bernard Shaw: Frasi in inglese

George Bernard Shaw era scrittore, drammaturgo e aforista irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”

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George Bernard Shaw

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”

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George Bernard Shaw Overruled

1910s
Origine: Overruled (1912)

“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”

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George Bernard Shaw Pigmalione

Origine: Pygmalion

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…”

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George Bernard Shaw

1890s
Origine: The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890-1894 being criticisms contributed week by week to The World (New York: Vienna House, 1973)

“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

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George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart

Origine: The Apple Cart

“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”

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George Bernard Shaw

New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize
1930s

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

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George Bernard Shaw libro Candida

1890s
Origine: Candida, Act I (1898)

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

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George Bernard Shaw

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”

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George Bernard Shaw

1900s
Origine: The Irrational Knot (1905)