萧伯纳名言集锦

萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw，1856年7月26日－19xx年11月2日），爱尔兰剧作家，19xx年因作品具有理想主义和人道主义而获诺贝尔文学奖，是英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家，是世界著名的擅长幽默与讽刺的语言大师。他的戏剧性语言尖锐泼辣，充满机智，妙语警名脱口而出。他的最著名的剧作有：《鳏夫的房产》、《华伦夫人的职业》、《武器与人》、《真相毕露》等。其喜剧作品《卖花女》（Pygmalion）因被 Alan Lerner 改编为音乐剧《窈窕淑女》（My Fair Lady），该音乐剧又被好莱坞改编为同名卖座电影而家喻户晓。

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.

George Bernard Shaw

第二篇：名人名言

名人名言

51Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

苦难显才华，好运隐天资。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)

Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)

差不多任何一种处境——无论是好是坏——都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller, American writer)

虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)

As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it. (Hugh Black, American writer)

水果不仅需要阳光，也需要凉夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。(美国作家 布莱克 H)

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Leonhard Frand , German novelist)

我可以拿走人的任何东西，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。(德国小说家 弗兰克 L)

Every tragedy makes heroes of common people. (Normna Stephens, American writer) 每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯 N)

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. (F.C.Comford, British writer)

自己甘愿受辱的人，受污辱也活该。(英国作家 科福德 F C)

I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. (Helen Keller,Ameican writer)

我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)

I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.(Jack London, American novelist) 我一生下来就开始哭泣，而每一天都表明我哭泣的原因。(美国小说家 杰克·伦敦) If you want to live your whole life free from pain

如果你想一生摆脱苦难

You must become either a god or else a coupes

你就得是神或者是死尸

Consider other men's troubles

想想他人的不幸

That will comfort yours

你就能坦然面对人生

Menander, Ancient Athenian playwriter

古雅典剧作家 米南德

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. (George Bernad Shaw, British dramastist)

对于害怕危险的人，这个世界上总是 危险的。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G)

It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (William Somerset Maugham, British novelist)

说苦难能使人格得到升华，这是不确切的；幸福有时倒能做到这一点，而苦难常会使人心胸

狭窄，产生复仇的心理。(英国小说家 毛姆 W S)

Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficultie，and concentrate instead upon the opptunity---for there is always opportunity in crisis. (Seebohm Caroline, British physician)

让我们建议处在危机之中的人：不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危险和困难上，相反而要集中在机会上——因为危机中总是存在着机会。(英国医生 卡罗琳 S)

Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent. (Lucius Annaeus Seneneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)

小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷声不响。(古罗马哲学家 尼加 L A)

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.(James Russell Lowell, American poetess and critic)

灾难就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以为我们服务，拿住刀刃则会割破手。(美国女诗人、批评家 洛威尔 J R)

No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us.

(B.T.Washington, American educator)

除了我们自己以外，没有人能贬低我们。如果我们坚强，就没有什么不良影响能够打败我们。(美国教育家 华盛顿 B T)

No pain , no palm; no thorns , no throne ; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (William Penn, British admiral)

没有播种，何来收获；没有辛劳，何来成功；没有磨难，何来荣耀；没有挫折，何来辉煌。(英国海军上将 佩恩 W)

Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals. (Lucius Anaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)

乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)

Perhaps you can't control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life. (Alan Loy Mcginnis ,British writer)

或许你不能支配自己的工作，但你能够使生活发生转变。(英国作家 麦金尼斯 A L) Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth discover virtue.

顺境时显现恶习，逆境时凸现美德

Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. (John Kennedy, American president)

从希望中得到欢乐，在苦难中保持坚韧。(美国总统 肯尼迪 J)

Sweet are the uses of adversity.(William Shakspeare,British Playwriter)

苦尽甘来。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W)

The chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. (Burejer, British writer)

中文的“危机”分为两个字，一个意味着危险，另外一个意味着机会。(英国作家 布瑞杰) The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.(James Russell Lowell, American Poetess and critic)

最难忍受的不幸是那些从未来临的不幸。(美国女诗人、评论家 洛威尔 J R)

The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape. (Seebohm Caroline, British Physician)

你越是为了解决问题而拼斗，你就越变得急躁——在错误的思路中陷得越深，也越难摆脱痛苦。(英国医生 卡罗琳 S)

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle, British

essayist and historian)

生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。(英国散文家、历史学家 卡莱尔 T)

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer)

对于过去不幸的记忆，构成了新不幸。(西班牙作家 塞万提斯 M)

Tough--minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)

意志坚强的乐观主义者用“世上无难事”人生观来思考问题，越是遭受悲剧打击，越是表现得坚强。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.(H.J.Kaier, American businessman)

困难只是穿上工作服的机遇。(美国实业家 凯泽 H J)

We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others. (La Rochefoucauld, French writer)

我们都有足够的力量来忍受别人的不幸。(法国作家 拉罗什富科)

We shall defend ourselves to the last breath of man and beast. (William II, King of England) 只要一息尚存，我们就要为保卫自己而战。(英国皇帝 威廉二世)

·All things in their being are good for something.

· 天生我才必有用。

· Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.

· 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

· Failure is the mother of success. - Thomas Paine

· 失败乃成功之母。

· For man is man and master of his fate.

· 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。

· The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates

· 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底

· None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus

· 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。

· Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon

· 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。

因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运 - 尼克松

· Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin

· 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金

· What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot

· 没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 · 埃略特

· Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

-- Lincoln

· 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。

· There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac

· 没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。 -- 巴尔扎克

· The good seaman is known in bad weather.

· 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。

· Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman

· 不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。 -- 纽曼 · Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving

· 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。 -- 欧文

· An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

· 生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。-- 史蒂文森

· While there is life there is hope.

· 一息若存，希望不灭。 -- 英国谚语

· Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein · 不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。 -- 爱因斯坦

· You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin

· 人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。 -- 卓别林

· Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.

· 不管追求什么目标，都应坚持不懈。

· We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King

· 我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。 -- 马丁 · 路德 · 金

· Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin

· 能量加毅力可以征服一切。 -- 富兰克林

· Nothing seek, nothing find.

· 无所求则无所获。

· Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle

· 生命不止，奋斗不息。 -- 卡莱尔

· A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.

· 千里之行，始于足下。

· Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. -- Swetchine

· 只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。 -- 斯威特切尼

· The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw

· 在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机会，他们便自己创造机会。 -- 萧伯纳

· A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison

· 强者能同命运的风暴抗争。 -- 爱迪生

· He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe

· 谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。 -- 歌德

· Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore

· 胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。 -- 穆尔

· Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.

· 人往高处走，水往低处流。

· Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe

· 失误是进取的代价。 -- 歌德

· The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. -- Henry David Thoreau

· 尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。 -- 梭罗

· A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- J. Burroughs

· 一个人可以失败很多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。 -- 巴勒斯

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight (P.B.Shelley, British poet)

伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。(英国诗人 雪莱 P B)

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (Stendhcl,French writer)

一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。(法国作家 司汤达)

A picture is a poem without words. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

一幅画是一首没有文字的诗歌。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (E.de Goncourt, French writer)

诗人是这样的人，他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。(法国作家 龚古尔 E)

A poet is born, not made. (L.A.Florus, Ancient Roman poet)

诗人靠天分，不是靠培养。(古罗马诗人 弗洛鲁 L A)

Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authourity is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (Da Vinci, Italian painter)

一个借着引经据典来辩论的人，不是在运用自己的才智，他是在运用自己的记忆力。(意大利画家 达·芬奇)

Art is a lie that tells the truth. (Picasso, Spanish painter)

美术是揭示真理的谎言。(西班牙画家 毕加索)

Art is long, and time is fleeting. (Longfellow, American poet)

艺术是永恒的，时间则是瞬息即逝的。(美国诗人 朗费罗)

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it ! (Robert Motherwell, American painter)

艺术远没有生活重要，但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀！(美国画家 马赦韦尔 R)

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. (Len Tolstoy, Russian writer)

艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。(俄国作家托尔斯泰。L)

Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. (Susanne Langer, American philosopher)

艺术是感情的模制品，犹如语言是思想的模制品。(美国哲学家 兰格 S)

Art is the object of feeling, and the subject of nature. (S.K.langer, American philosopher and educator)

艺术是情感的客观表现。也是本性的主观反映。(美国哲学家、教育家 兰格 S K)

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. (Friedrich Schiller, German poet)

艺术是自然的右手。自然只让我们存在，而艺术创造我们的人类。(德国诗人 席勒 F)

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travel. (Theocore Dreser, American novelist)

好画犹如佳肴，只可意会，不可言传。(法国画家 弗拉曼克 M)

Good painting is like good cooking; it ca n be tasted, but not explained. (Maurice de vlaminck, French painter)

简单地说，伟大的文学就是包涵极其丰富意义的语言。(美国诗人 庞德 E)

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree (Ezra Poud, American poet)

幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美国诗人 庞德 E)

Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (Mark Twain, American novelist)

我写作只是为了增加自身的美。(美国作家 杰克·伦敦)

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. (Jack London, American writer)

音乐要用心灵去听，用头脑去感觉。(法国作家 雨果 V)

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains. Victor Hugo, French writer Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. (PaulWhiteman, American conductor) 爵士乐使你的肌肉发痒，交响乐能舒展你的灵魂。(美国指挥家 怀特曼 P)

iterature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like. (Samuse Johnson, British writer and critic)

文学是一种理智之光，它和阳光一样，有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。(英国作家、批评家 约翰逊 S)

Love and scandale the best sweeteners of tea. (HenryFielding, British writer)

风流韵事与丑闻是品茶聊天时的最佳话题。(英国作家 菲尔丁 H)

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve. British dramatist)

音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。(英国剧作家 康格里夫 W) Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (John Erskine, American educator)

音乐是唯一不能用及表达卑鄙的或讽刺的事物的语言。(美国教育家 厄斯金 J)

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture. (Simonides, ancient Greek writer) 画是无言之诗，诗是有声之画。(古希腊作家 西蒙尼特斯)

Rules and modesty destroy genius and art. (William Hazlitt, British essayist)

规则与谦逊会毁掉天才和艺术。(英国散文家 哈兹里特 W)

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face their own. (Jonathan Swift, British writer)

讽刺是一面镜子，观看者通常从中看到每一个人的面容却看不到自己。(英国作家 斯威夫特 J)

Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have. (Aesop, ancient Greek fable writer) 吃不到葡萄的人说葡萄酸。(古希腊寓言作家 伊索)

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. (Ephraem Syrus, American writer)

语言是心灵的镜子；一个人只要说话，他说的话就是他的心灵的镜子。(美国作家 塞拉斯 E) Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you;

music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel, Austrian pianist)

阳光可能炙烤你，食品可能毒害你，言语可能诅咒你，图画可能侮辱你——音乐不会处罚你只会祝福你。(奥地利钢琴家 施纳贝尔 A)

The art of giving presents is to give something which others cannot buy for themselves. (Alan Alexander Milne, British humorist)

送礼的艺术在于送别人不能给自己买的东西。(英国幽默作家 米尔恩 A A)

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep in their downwad tendency. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German poet)

文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德 J W)

The lanscope belongs to the man who looks at it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker) 风景属于看风景的人。(美国思想家 爱默生 R W)

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.(John Ruskin, American writer and critic)

爱美是健康人性的重要组成部分。(美国作家、批评家 罗斯金 J)

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props , the pillars to help him endure and prevail. (William Fulkner, American writer)

诗人的声音不应只是人类的记录，而应是使人类永存并得到胜利的支柱和栋梁。(美国作家福克纳.W.)

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. (Somerset Maugham, British noverlist and dramatist)

文化的价值在于它对人类品性的影响。除非文化能使品性变为高尚、有力。文化的作用在于裨益人生，它的目标不是美，而是善。(英国小说家和戏剧家 毛姆 S)

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. (Picasso, Spanish painter) 有些画家把太阳画成一个黄斑，但有些画家借助于他们的技巧和智慧把黄斑画成太阳。(西班牙画家 毕加索)

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. (Charls A.Dana, American journalist)

狗咬人不是新闻，人咬狗才是新闻。(美国记者 达纳 C A)

When one loves one's art no service seems too hard. (O.Henry, American novelist)

一旦 热爱艺术，什么奉献也不难。(美国小说家 欧·享利)

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all man's actions. Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy. (Sigmund Freud, German Psychiatrist)

言辞具有不可思议的力量。他们能带来最大的幸福，也能带来最深的失望；能把知识从教师传给学生；言辞能使演说者左右他的听众，，并强行代替他们作出决定。言辞能激起最大强烈的情感，促进人的一切行动。不要嘲笑言辞在心理治疗当中的的用途。(德国精神分析学家 弗洛伊德 S)