关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)

　　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)