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蕭伯納(George Bernard Shaw，1856年7月26日-1950年11月2日)，愛爾蘭劇作家，1925年因作品具有理想主義和人道主義而獲諾貝爾文學獎，是英國現(xiàn)代杰出的現(xiàn)實主義戲劇作家，是世界著名的擅長幽默與諷刺的語言大師。他的戲劇性語言尖銳潑辣，充滿機智，妙語警名脫口而出。他的最著名的劇作有：《鰥夫的房產》、《華倫夫人的職業(yè)》、《武器與人》、《真相畢露》等。其喜劇作品《賣花女》(Pygmalion)因被 Alan Lerner 改編為音樂劇《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady)，該音樂劇又被好萊塢改編為同名賣座電影而家喻戶曉。 他的一些經典名言讓我們可以窺見他的睿智、風趣和刻薄。
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
蕭伯納(George Bernard Shaw，1856年7月26日-1950年11月2日)，愛爾蘭劇作家，1925年因作品具有理想主義和人道主義而獲諾貝爾文學獎，是英國現(xiàn)代杰出的現(xiàn)實主義戲劇作家，是世界著名的擅長幽默與諷刺的語言大師。他的戲劇性語言尖銳潑辣，充滿機智，妙語警名脫口而出。他的最著名的劇作有：《鰥夫的房產》、《華倫夫人的職業(yè)》、《武器與人》、《真相畢露》等。其喜劇作品《賣花女》(Pygmalion)因被 Alan Lerner 改編為音樂劇《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady)，該音樂劇又被好萊塢改編為同名賣座電影而家喻戶曉。 他的一些經典名言讓我們可以窺見他的睿智、風趣和刻薄。
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
George Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
