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George Bernard Shaw The Devil's Disciple
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.“
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
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
„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/ <br class="br">Original engl.: "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." auch mit "United States" und "Great Britain" <br class="br">Zugeschrieben
„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 - The Road to Equality: Ten unpublished Lectures and Essays, 1884-1918, edited by Louis Crompton, Beacon Press, 1971.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.“
George Bernard Shaw John Bull's Other Island
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."
George Bernard Shaw: Zitate auf Englisch
George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
Quelle: Man and Superman
George Bernard Shaw The Devil's Disciple
The Devil's Disciple, Act II
1900s
“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”
#41
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”
Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”
The Irrational Knot, Preface (1905)
1900s
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. I, preface http://books.google.com/books?id=MiJaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+had+not+achieved+a+success+but+I+had+provoked+an+uproar+and+the+sensation+was+so+agreeable+that+I+resolved+to+try+again%22&pg=PR13#v=onepage (1898) <br class="br">1890s
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
As quoted in George Bernard Shaw, his life and works: a critical biography (authorised), Archibald Henderson, Stewart & Kidd (1911), Chapter VII (The Art Critic), pp. 201-202
1910s
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.”
Reply to T. E. Lawrence who complained of press attention. <br class="br">Quoted by Harry Kessler in his diary, 14 November 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=y_BJt918BHoC <br class="br">1920s
“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.”
Speech at New York (11 April 1933)
1930s
#179
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
