George Bernard Shaw: Frases em inglês (página 10)

“… a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.”

“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island…”

“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.”

“I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"”

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.”

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”

“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.”

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly tell our children that honesty is the best policy.”

“I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.”

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”