有關(guān)文化的英語名人名言

　　爵士樂使你的肌肉發(fā)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(xué)是一種理智之光，它和陽光一樣，有時(shí)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(fēng)流韻事與丑聞是品茶聊天時(shí)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(dá)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(guī)則與謙遜會(huì)毀掉天才和藝術(shù)。(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(gè)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(gè)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(huì)處罰你只會(huì)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)

　　送禮的藝術(shù)在于送別人不能給自己買的東西。(英國幽默作家 米爾恩 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)

　　文學(xué)的衰落表明一個(gè)民族的衰落。這兩者走下坡路的時(shí)候是齊頭并進(jìn)的。(德國詩人 歌德 j w)

　　the lanscope belongs to the man who looks at it. (ralph waldo emerson, american thinker)

　　風(fēng)景屬于看風(fēng)景的人。(美國思想家 愛默生 r w)

　　the love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.(john ruskin, american writer and critic)

　　愛美是健康人性的重要組成部分。(美國作家、批評家 羅斯金 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)

　　詩人的聲音不應(yīng)只是人類的記錄，而應(yīng)是使人類永存并得到勝利的支柱和棟梁。(美國作家�？思{.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)