George Bernard Shaw: Frases en inglés (página 16)

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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“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.”

#125
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.”

Preface to English Prisons Under Local Government http://books.google.com/books?id=81YwAAAAYAAJ by Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1922)
1940s and later

“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”

"The Play of Ideas", New Statesman (6 May 1950)
1940s and later

“As a red hot Communist I am in favour of fascism. The only drawback to Sir Oswald’s movement is that it is not quite British enough.”

As quoted in Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of Bernard Shaw by Gareth Griffith (1993). Originally from Bernard Shaw, The News Chronicle, “The Blackshirt Challenge,” (Jan. 1934)
1930s

“The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.”

As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later

“In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.”

Ireland in the New Century (1904) by Horace Plunkett
Often quoted as: Irish history is something no Englishman should forget and no Irishman should remember.
Misattributed

“We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.”

Everybody's Political What's What http://books.google.com/books?id=JSwBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22we+have+no+reason+to+suppose+that+we+are+the+Creator's+last+word%22&pg=PA234#v=onepage (1944)
1940s and later

“All progress means war with Society.”

The Bishop
1900s, Getting Married (1908)