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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 - The Road to Equality: Ten unpublished Lectures and Essays, 1884-1918, edited by Louis Crompton, Beacon Press, 1971.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
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Similar remarks are also attributed to Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and to Mark Twain
Disputed
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
#172
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Notes
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, Chapter 82 http://books.google.com/books?id=ys13gZliXFAC (1928)
1920s
Interview "Who I Am, and What I Think", in Frank Harris's periodical The Candid Friend (May 1901), reprinted in Sixteen Self Sketches, 1949, p. 53; quoted in Desmond King-Hele, Shelley: His Thought and Work, 1984, p. 42 https://books.google.it/books?id=V5KvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42
1900s
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
Three Plays for Puritans, Preface (1900)
1900s
Preface; Cruelty's Excuses
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
#158
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
#105
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
#65
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.”
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)
Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.”
Pilate, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
#162
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Quelle: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. xxxi
Act I
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality.”
Act V
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
“I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.”
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)