關于文化的英文名人名言

　　【名言警句-文化篇】

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

　　簡單地說，偉大的文學就是包涵極其豐富意義的語言。(美國詩人 龐德 e)

　　great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree (ezra poud, american poet)

　　幽默被人正確地解釋為“以誠摯表達感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美國詩人 龐德 e)

　　humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (mark twain, american novelist)

　　我寫作只是為了增加自身的美。(美國作家 杰克·倫敦)

　　i write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. (jack london, american writer)

　　音樂要用心靈去聽，用頭腦去感覺。(法國作家 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)

　　爵士樂使你的肌肉發癢，交響樂能舒展你的靈魂。(美國指揮家 懷特曼 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)

　　文學是一種理智之光，它和陽光一樣，有時能使我們看到我們不喜歡的東西。(英國作家、批評家 約翰遜 s)

　　love and scandale the best sweeteners of tea. (henryfielding, british writer)

　　風流韻事與丑聞是品茶聊天時的最佳話題。(英國作家 菲爾丁 h)

　　music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (william congreve. british dramatist)

　　音樂有著撫慰粗野的胸懷、軟化頑石或使千年老樹彎腰的魅力。(英國劇作家 康格里夫 w)

　　music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (john erskine, american educator)

　　音樂是唯一不能用及表達卑鄙的或諷刺的事物的語言。(美國教育家 厄斯金 j)

　　painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture. (simonides, ancient greek writer)

　　畫是無言之詩，詩是有聲之畫。(古希臘作家 西蒙尼特斯)

　　rules and modesty destroy genius and art. (william hazlitt, british essayist)

　　規則與謙遜會毀掉天才和藝術。(英國散文家 哈茲里特 w)

　　satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face their own. (jonathan swift, british writer)

　　諷刺是一面鏡子，觀看者通常從中看到每一個人的面容卻看不到自己。(英國作家 斯威夫特 j)

　　some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have. (aesop, ancient greek fable writer)

　　吃不到葡萄的人說葡萄酸。(古希臘寓言作家 伊索)

　　speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. (ephraem syrus, american writer)

　　語言是心靈的鏡子；一個人只要說話，他說的話就是他的心靈的鏡子。(美國作家 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)

　　陽光可能炙烤你，食品可能毒害你，言語可能詛咒你，圖畫可能侮辱你——音樂不會處罰你只會祝福你。(奧地利鋼琴家 施納貝爾 a)

　　the art of giving presents is to give something which others cannot buy for themselves. (alan alexander milne, british humorist)