★The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer

逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些

★When one is in love, one always begins by deceiveing one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others

That is what would calls a romance

爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人

这就是所谓的浪漫

★The very essence of romance is uncertainty

浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能

★Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason

人是理性动物，但当他被要求按照理性的要求行动时，可又要发脾气了

★My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death

One or other of us has to go

墙纸越来越破，而我越来越老，两者之间总有一个要先消失

——1900年11月30日，于左岸旅店，他的遗言

★No man is rich enough to buy back his own past

-An Ideal Husband (1895)没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去

——改编自《理想的丈夫》★The truth is rarely pure and never simple

-The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)真相很少纯粹，也决不简单

——《不可儿嬉》★To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance

爱自己是终身浪漫的开始

——爱自己就是开始延续一生的罗曼史

★We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空

★Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes

大多数人发现他们从未后悔的事情只是他们的错误，但发现时已经太晚了

★What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage

什么是离婚的主要原因？结婚

★When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve

当爱情走到尽头，软弱者哭个不停，有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标，而聪明的早就预备了下一个

★No great artist ever sees things as they really are

If he did he would cease to be an artist

伟大的艺术家所看到的，从来都不是世界的本来面目

一旦他看透了，他就不再是艺术家

★I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit

我给你们讲述的是所有你们没勇气去犯的罪孽

★One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about

一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人

★Wicked women bother one

Good women bore one

That is the only difference between them

坏女人给我麻烦

好女人令我厌烦

这就是她们唯一的不同

★Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes

每个人犯了错误，都自称是经验

★And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months

Literary and Other Notes I, Woman's World (November 1887)时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋，以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次

★A man's face is his autobiography

A woman's face is her work of fiction

男人的面孔是他的自传，女人的面容是她的幻想作品

★There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life

The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband

女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧：她总在缅怀过去，却必须活在未来

★We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow

我们教给人们如何记忆，却从来不教他们如何成长

★Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success

-The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)任何人都能对朋友的不幸感到同情，但要消受一个春风得意的朋友，则需要非常优良的天性

-《社会主义下人的灵魂》★"If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female

"-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime如果一个女人不能让她犯的错误变得迷人，她就只是一个雌性动物

-《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》★"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications

Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast

"-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime大多数男人和女人被强迫扮演他们没有能力扮演的角色

我们的吉尔登斯吞为我们演哈姆雷特，而我们的哈姆雷特必须像霍尔王子一样来说笑

这个世界是个舞台，但角色被分配得很糟糕

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