萧伯纳的名言名句 萧伯纳名言集锦

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萧伯纳（Gee Bernard Shaw，1856年7月26日－1950年11月2日），爱尔兰剧作家，1925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.
Gee Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly
science into superstition
and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Gee Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Gee Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Gee Bernard Shaw
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it e is no such thing in the country.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Gee Bernard Shaw
England and America are o countries separated by a mon language.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Gee Bernard ShawFew people think more than o or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or ice a week.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Gee Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Gee Bernard Shaw

I can five Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite
but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
Gee Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Gee Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end
they would not reach a conclusion.
Gee Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself
and the unexpected always happens
how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Gee 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.
Gee Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton
you may as well make it dance.
Gee 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.
Gee Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Gee Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Gee Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can bee famous without ability.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Gee Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
Gee Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Gee 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.
Gee Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Gee Bernard Shaw