萧伯纳（George 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.
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

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