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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."
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„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 - The Road to Equality: Ten unpublished Lectures and Essays, 1884-1918, edited by Louis Crompton, Beacon Press, 1971.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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Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Quelle: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
Widely attributed to Shaw, this quotation is actually of unknown origin.
Misattributed
Variante: She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
#57
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Quelle: Man and Superman
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
Everybody's Political What's What (1944), Ch. 30, p. 256
1940s and later
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
Act III http://books.google.com/books?id=3wAOAQAAMAAJ
Quelle: 1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
Quelle: Man and Superman
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Kontext: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
1910s
Quelle: Heartbreak House
“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”
Pt. V http://books.google.com/books?id=sUKiG0ghhb4C&q=%22Silence+is+the+most+perfect+expression+of+scorn%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
1910s
Quelle: Overruled (1912)