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)