George Bernard Shaw: Frases en inglés (página 20)

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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“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”

Widely attributed to Shaw from the 1970s onward, but not known to exist in his published works. It is in keeping with some of his sardonic statements about the purposes and effectiveness of schools. First known attribution in print is in Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner's Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1971), "G. B. Shaw's line that the only time his education was interrupted was when he was in school captures the sense of this alienation."
Attributed

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.”

George Bernard Shaw The Doctor's Dilemma

Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=aniaAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+who+is+occupied+in+doing+a+very+difficult+thing+and+doing+it+very+well+ever+loses+his+self-respect%22&pg=PR22#v=onepage
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variante: No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

“But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”

"The Living Pictures", The Saturday Review, LXXIX (April 6, 1895), 443, reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932). Vol. 1. London: Constable & Co. 79-86
1890s

“You can't make a man a Christian unless you first make him believe he is a sinner.”

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), p. 17
Misattributed

“A: How about $1?”

Misattributed