George Bernard Shaw: Frases en inglés (página 6)
George Bernard Shaw era escritor irlandés, ganador del Premio Nobel de literatura en 1925 y del Óscar en 1938. Frases en inglés.
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
Act III http://books.google.com/books?id=3wAOAQAAMAAJ
Fuente: 1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
Fuente: Man and Superman
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Contexto: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
1910s
Fuente: Heartbreak House
“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”
Pt. V http://books.google.com/books?id=sUKiG0ghhb4C&q=%22Silence+is+the+most+perfect+expression+of+scorn%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
1910s
Fuente: Overruled (1912)