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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 - The Road to Equality: Ten unpublished Lectures and Essays, 1884-1918, edited by Louis Crompton, Beacon Press, 1971.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
1890s
Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: The Apple Cart
“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”
New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize
1930s
1910s, A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
Kontext: The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.
Quelle: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 121
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
George Bernard Shaw, quoted by Hesketh Pearson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, 1942
1940s and later