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The Devil's Disciple, Act II (1901)
Original engl.: "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
„Je mehr ein Mensch sich schämt, desto anständiger ist er.“
Man and Superman (dt.: Mensch und Übermensch), 1903, 1. Akt
Original engl.: "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
George Bernard Shaw Zitate und Sprüche
„Ich zitiere mich oft selber. Ich finde, es bringt Attraktivität in das Gespräch.“
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations, Robertson, Connie, Wordsworth, Herfordshire 1996
Original engl.: "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversations."
Der Sozialismus und die Natur des Menschen, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. Main 1973. S. 140 ISBN 3-518-36621-1 Auswahl und Übersetzung von Ursula Michels-Wenz, zitiert in: Die Neue Gesellschaft, Heft 27, hrsg. für die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 1980. S. 757
Original engl.: "[...] Equality is the best touchstone for distinguishing your real Socialist from your virtuously indignant pitier of the poor." - The Road to Equality: Ten unpublished Lectures and Essays, 1884-1918, edited by Louis Crompton, Beacon Press, 1971. S. 194
„Wenn ich scherzen will, sage ich die Wahrheit. Das ist immer noch der größte Spaß auf Erden.“
John Bull's Other Island, Akt 2, 1907
Original engl.: "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the World."


„England und Amerika sind zwei Länder, die durch die gemeinsame Sprache getrennt sind.“
Reader’s Digest, November 1942; für Shaw nicht belegbar, jedoch hatte Oscar Wilde schon vorher in "Das Gespenst von Canterville" einen ähnlichen Gedanken. Popular misquotes - 'the things they never said'. http://www.phrases.org.uk/quotes/misquotes/
Original engl.: "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." auch mit "United States" und "Great Britain"
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George Bernard Shaw: Zitate auf Englisch
“You're not a man, you're a machine.”
Arms and the Man, Act III (1898)
1890s
Preface to London music in 1888-89 as heard by Corno di Bassetto http://books.google.com/books?id=3PBP0ln1gLgC (1937)
1940s and later
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.”
Praed, Act IV
1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.”
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
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
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
#33
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“I don't believe in morality. I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.”
Act III
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
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

“The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later
letter, 24 June 1930, to Frank Harris "To Frank Harris on Sex in Biography" Sixteen Self Sketches (1949)
1940s and later
Quelle: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
#68
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Interview "What Vegetarianism Really Means: a Talk with Mr Bernard Shaw", in Vegetarian (15 January 1898), reprinted in Shaw: Interviews and Recollections, edited by A. M. Gibbs, 1990, p. 401 https://books.google.it/books?id=45muCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA401
1890s
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
Acis, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.”
Candida, Act III
1890s