輯一・論思想

1. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
所有偉大的真理都始於對神的褻瀆。
——安娜燕思卡
Annajanska

13. The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
病人眼中毛骨悚然的手術，外科醫生卻說它美。多愁善感者認為冷硬的測量法，
物理學家卻說它美。毀掉當事人一生的案件，律師說它美。
癡情迷醉的愛慕對象，戀人也說它美。
美與不美，本就旁觀者清，當局者迷。
——愛倫．泰瑞與蕭伯納：通信
Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence

21. The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.
成功之鑰在於得罪最多的人。
引用自——與蕭伯納度日
attributed, Days with Bernard Shaw

22.  Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
地獄，簡言之，
就是無聊到你得自娛痴笑的地方。
——人與超人
Man and Superman

輯二 ・談社會

5. He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
他很無知，卻自視無所不知。政客就是這副德性。
——巴巴拉上校
Major Barbara

18. Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
殉難是能力不足的人出名的唯一途徑。
——魔鬼的門徒
The Devil’s disciple

33. The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
野蠻人向木石刻鑿的偶像垂首致敬，文明人則崇拜血肉之驅。
——給革命者的箴言
Maxims for the Revolutionists