蕭伯納（George Bernard Shaw，1856年7月26日－1950年11月2日），愛爾蘭劇作家，1925年因作品具有理想主義和人道主義而獲諾貝爾文學獎，是英國現代杰出的現實主義戲劇作家，是世界著名的擅長幽默與諷刺的語言大師。他的戲劇性語言尖銳潑辣，充滿機智，妙語警名脫口而出。他的最著名的劇作有：《鰥夫的房產》、《華倫夫人的職業》、《武器與人》、《真相畢露》等。其喜劇作品《賣花女》（Pygmalion）因被 Alan Lerner 改編為音樂劇《窈窕淑女》（My Fair Lady），該音樂劇又被好萊塢改編為同名賣座電影而家喻戶曉。

　　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