George Bernard Shaw: Frases en inglés (página 14)
George Bernard Shaw era escritor irlandés, ganador del Premio Nobel de literatura en 1925 y del Óscar en 1938. Frases en inglés.
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“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”
As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later
“Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.”
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
“The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.”
From Why You Should Never be a Christian (1987) by Ishaq 'Kunle Sanni and Dawood Ayodele Amoo.
Misattributed
“Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
Act II
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.”
George Bernard Shaw
You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell, Act IV
1890s
“No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.”
#116
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“B: What do you think what a person I am?”
"The role of the character initiating the proposal in this anecdote has been assigned to George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson and others. However, the earliest example of this basic story found by QI did not spotlight any of the persons just listed [...]
[...] QI hypothesizes that this anecdote began as a fictional tale that was intended to be humorous with an edge of antagonism. The story was retold for decades. Famous men were substituted into the role of the individual making the proposition. Occasionally, the individual who received the proposition was also described as famous, but typically she remained unidentified.
[...] In January 1937 the syndicated newspaper columnist O. O. McIntyre printed a version of the anecdote that he says was sent to him as a newspaper clipping. This tale featured a powerful Canadian-British media magnate and politician named Max Aitken who was also referred to as Lord Beaverbrook [MJLB]":
Someone sends me a clipping from Columnist Lyons with this honey:
“They are telling this of Lord Beaverbrook and a visiting Yankee actress. In a game of hypothetical questions, Beaverbrook asked the lady: ‘Would you live with a stranger if he paid you one million pounds?’ She said she would. ‘And if be paid you five pounds?’ The irate lady fumed: ‘Five pounds. What do you think I am?’ Beaverbrook replied: ‘We’ve already established that. Now we are trying to determine the degree.”
Quote investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/ cited 2013-07-10
Misattributed
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”
George Bernard Shaw
You Never Can Tell
You Never Can Tell, Act II
1890s
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
George Bernard Shaw
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Preface (1910)
1910s
“Socialism urged to find dictator,” Berkeley Daily Gazette (Nov. 30, 1927)
1890s
“I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.”
George Bernard Shaw
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, Act 2 (1934)
1940s and later
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
George Bernard Shaw
The Apple Cart
That is my last word. Think over it.
The Apple Cart (1928) Preface
1920s
The Serpent, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)