George Bernard Shaw: Frases en inglés (página 9)
George Bernard Shaw era escritor irlandés, ganador del Premio Nobel de literatura en 1925 y del Óscar en 1938. Frases en inglés.“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.”
Widely attributed to Shaw begin31 (187ning in the 1940s, esp. after appearing in the November 1942 Reader’s Digest, the quotation is actually a variant of "Indeed, in many respects, she [Mrs. Otis] was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" from Oscar Wilde's 1887 short story "The Canterville Ghost".
Misattributed
Variante: The English and the Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”
Initially attributed to Cyrus S. Ching in Time, Vol. 56 (1950), p. 21.
Misattributed
Variante: Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
“Shall I turn up the light for you?
No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.”
Fuente: Heartbreak House
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”
#32
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
Crofts, Act III
Variante: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Fuente: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”
Fuente: Major Barbara
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”
Pt. V; see also the later phrasing of Malcolm Fraser, "life wasn't meant to be easy"
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
#110
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)