George Bernard Shaw: His PlaysJohn W. Luce & Company, 1905 - 107 páginas |
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Página xxi - My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see.
Página 6 - I'll do wrong and nothing but wrong. And I'll prosper on it. VIVIE. Yes: it's better to choose your line and go through with it. If I had been you, mother, I might have done as you did; but I should not have lived one life and believed in another. You are a conventional woman at heart. That is why I am bidding you goodbye now.
Página 39 - POTHINUS [bitterly] Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes ? CAESAR. My friend : taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
Página 55 - I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty of purpose for your surety, my ability and industry for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity.
Página 54 - Is it like this for her here always? A woman, with a great soul, craving for reality, truth, freedom; and being fed on metaphors, sermons, stale perorations, mere rhetoric. Do you think a woman's soul can live on your talent for preaching?
Página 5 - I'll just tell you this before I go. It may interest you, since youre so fond of one another. Allow me, Mister Frank, to introduce you to your half-sister, the eldest daughter of the Reverend Samuel Gardner. Miss Vivie: your half-brother. Good morning.
Página 102 - Shakespear found that the only thing that paid in the theatre was romantic nonsense, and that when he was forced by this to produce one of the most effective samples of romantic nonsense in existence — a feat which he performed easily and well — he publicly disclaimed any responsibility for its pleasant and cheap falsehood by borrowing the story and throwing it in the face of the public with the phrase As You Like It.
Página 54 - It is easy — terribly easy — to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
Página 103 - It, but that I actually have written much better ones, and in fact, never wrote anything, and never intend to write anything, half so bad in matter. (In manner and art nobody can write better than Shakespear, because, carelessness apart, he did the thing as well as it can be done within the limits of human faculty.) 10.
Página 13 - I had no motive and no interest; all I can tell you is that when it came to the point whether I would take my neck out of the noose and put another man's into it, I could not do it. I don't know why not; I see myself as a fool for my pains; but I could not and I cannot.