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The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
逢場作戲和終身不渝之間的區別隻在於逢場作戲稍微長一些。

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.
愛，始於自我欺騙，終於欺騙他人。這就是所謂的浪漫。
——戀愛總是以自欺開始，以欺人結束。

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
浪漫的精髓就在於它充滿種種可能。

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
人是理性動物，但當他被要求按照理性的要求行動時，可又要發脾氣了。

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.
牆紙越來越破，而我越來越老，兩者之間總有一個要先消失。——1900年11月30日，於左岸旅店，他的遺言。

No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
-An Ideal Husband (1895)
沒有人富有到可以贖回自己的過去。
——改編自《理想的丈夫》

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
真相很少純粹，也決不簡單。
——《不可兒嬉》

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
愛自己是終身浪漫的開始。
——愛自己就是開始延續一生的羅曼史。

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我們都生活在陰溝裏，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.
大多數人發現他們從未後悔的事情隻是他們的錯誤，但發現時已經太晚了。

What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
什麼是離婚的主要原因？結婚。

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
當愛情走到盡頭，軟弱者哭個不停，有效率的馬上去尋找下一個目標，而聰明的早就預備了下一個。

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
偉大的藝術家所看到的，從來都不是世界的本來麵目。一旦他看透了，他就不再是藝術家。

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
我給你們講述的是所有你們沒勇氣去犯的罪孽。

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
一個人總是可以善待他毫不在意的人。

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
我們愛爾蘭人太詩意以至不能做詩人，我們的國家裏充滿才華橫溢的失敗者，可我們是自希臘人以來最偉大的說空話之人。

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
看似痛苦的試煉的往往是偽裝的祝福。

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
情感的好處就是讓我們誤入歧途。

Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Personal Impressions of America (Leadville) (1883)
鋼琴上貼著一條告示：請不要槍殺鋼琴師，他已經盡力了。

The heart was made to be broken.
心是用來碎的。

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
公眾驚人地寬容。他們可以原諒一切，除了天才。

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
宗教一旦被證明是正確時就會消亡。科學便是已消亡宗教的記錄。

Why was I born with such contemporaries
為什麼我會和這樣同時代的人一塊出生呢？

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
詩人可以從任何事件中存活，印刷錯誤除外。

Only the shallow know themselves.
-Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894)
隻有淺薄的人才了解自己。

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方式是臣服於誘惑……我能抗拒一切，除了誘惑。

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
不滿是個人或民族邁向進步的第一步。

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
我喜歡自言自語，因為這樣節約時間，而且不會有人跟我爭論。

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
格言是智慧耐用的替代品。

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　　A cynic is a man who knows the price of everythingand the value of nothing.
憤世嫉俗者是一個知道所有東西的價格、卻不知道它們的價值的人。
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way bymoonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of theworld.
夢想家隻能在月光下找到自己的路，他的懲罰是第一個看見黎明。
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and agreat deal of it is absolutely fatal.
不夠真誠是危險的，太真誠則絕對是致命的。
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of hisenemies.
一個人在選擇他的敵人時，再小心也不為過。
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
一個詩人什麼都可以容忍，印刷錯誤除外。
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All women become like their mothers. That is theirtragedy. No man does. That's his.
所有女人都會變得像她們的母親一樣，這是女人的悲劇。但沒有男人變得像他們的父親，這是男人的悲劇。
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Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them somuch.
永遠要寬恕你的敵人。沒有什麼比這更能讓他們心煩的了。
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America is the only country that wentfrom barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
美國是唯一一個直接從野蠻進入頹廢、中間沒有經過文明階段的社會。
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgarand often convincing.
要避免爭論，爭論總是俗不可耐，而且常常令人信服。
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger thanher own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
隻要一個女人看上去比她自己的女兒小十歲，她就一定會心滿意足。
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Bad artists always admire each other's work.
糟糕的畫家總是欣賞彼此的作品。
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Between men and women there is no friendshippossible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
男女之間不可能存在友誼，有的隻是愛恨情仇。
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Conscience and cowardice are really the samethings.
良心和怯懦其實是一回事。
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Dammit sir, it's your duty to get married. Youcan't be always living for pleasure.
該死，先生，結婚是你的職責，你不能總是逍遙快活。
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of thepeople by the people for the people.
民主就是指人民用人民的大頭棒打擊人民。
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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give awoman anything she can't wear in the evening.
不要給女人忠告；決不要給女人任何她晚上不能穿戴的東西。
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well toremember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是一件可敬的事，但要時刻牢記，沒有什麼值得知道的事是教得會的。
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Experience is the name every one gives to theirmistakes.
經驗是一個人給自己所犯的錯誤取的名字。
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable thatwe have to alter it every six months.
時裝醜陋得完全令人無法容忍，以至於我們必須每6個月就改變它的樣式。
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a manwho insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
女人如何能期望會從男人那裏獲得幸福，如果他堅持把她當作一個完全正常的人。
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I adore political parties. They are the only placeleft to us where people don't talk politics.
我喜歡政治晚會，這是唯一人們不談政治的地方。
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I am not young enough to know everything.
我還沒有年輕到什麼都懂的地步。
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand asingle word of what I’m saying.
我簡直太聰明了，有時連我自己都不知道自己在說什麼。
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I can resist everything except temptation.
我可以抗拒一切，誘惑除外。
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I have made an important discovery…that alcohol,taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication.
我有一個重大發現——如果攝入足量酒精，就會產生各種陶醉的效果。
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I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thingin the world that never contradicts me.
我喜歡對一堵牆說話，世界上隻有它不會反駁我。
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
我喜歡演戲。與人生相比，演戲更真實。
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I hadbreakfast in bed.
我經常鍛煉。隻是昨天我是在床上吃的早飯。
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I think that God, in creating Man, somewhatoverestimated his ability.
我想，上帝在創造人類時高估了他的能力。
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems allmorning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
我整個早上都在校對自己的一首詩，我去掉了一個逗號。下午我又把它加了上去。
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Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it andthe bloom is gone.
無知就像是一朵精致的花朵：摸一下，它就消失了。
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One isnot getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
世界上隻有兩種悲劇，一種是一個人沒有得到他想要的，另一種是他得到了。
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is solittle useless information.
這是一件很悲哀的事——如今幾乎沒有無用的信息。
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, butit is better to be good than to be ugly.
美麗要比善良好，善良要比難看強。
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It is characteristic of all deep human problemsthat they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
所有人類的重大問題都有一個共同點：沒有點幽默和瘋狂是沒辦法解決的。
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
爭論者損失的隻是智力。
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It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one'senemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.
來自敵人的困難可以忍，來自朋友的成功則無可忍。
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas loveis two fool things after each other.
人生就是一件蠢事追著另一件蠢事而來，而愛情則是兩個蠢東西追來追去。
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Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded toPoverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
就像親愛的聖芳濟一樣，我也和貧窮聯姻，但我的婚姻並不成功。
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination overintelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
結婚是想象戰勝了理智，再婚是希望戰勝了經驗。
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Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it alwaysgets on one's nerves, which is the same thing nowadays.
音樂讓人感覺非常浪漫，至少讓人感覺不安，如今兩者是一回事。
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about herage. It looks so calculating.
沒有女人應該對她的年齡十分準確。這顯得有些精於算計。
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One should never trust a woman who tells her realage. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
一個人決不應該相信說出自己真實年齡的女人。如果她把這都說出來了，那她什麼都會說。
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing hisbest.
請別開槍打死那個鋼琴師，他已經盡力了。
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Science is the record of dead religions.
科學是死去的宗教的記錄。
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Tell the cook of this restaurant with mycompliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, andthat when I ask for a watercress sandwich I do not mean a loaf with a field inthe middle of it.
請轉告我對這家飯店廚師的讚譽，這是全世界最糟糕的三明治了，還有，我點的是豆瓣菜三明治，我並不是要麵包片中夾一塊菜田。
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
樂觀的基礎完全是恐懼。
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in agarden…It ends with Revelations.
《生命之書》始於一座花園裏的一男一女……它最後以《啟示錄》告終。
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The difference between journalism and literature isthat journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
報紙和文學的區別是，報紙沒法讀，而文學則沒人讀。
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The only difference between saints and sinners isthat every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
聖人和罪人的唯一區別是，每一個聖人都有過去，而每一個罪人都有未來。
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass iton. It is never of any use to oneself.
對於忠告，你所能做的，就是把它奉送給別人，忠告從來就不是給自己準備的。
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yieldto it.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方法是屈服於它。
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The play was a great success, but the audience wasa disaster.
演出相當成功，但觀眾則是一場災難。
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgiveseverything except genius.
公眾極其寬容，他們可以寬容一切，天才除外。
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There is only one thing in the world worse thanbeing talked about, and that is not being talked about.
世界上隻有一件比被人談論更糟糕的事，那就是沒人談論你。
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Thirty five is a very attractive age; Londonsociety is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-fivefor years.
三十五歲是一個非常有吸引力的年齡；倫敦社交圈內滿是這樣好多年一直保持三十五歲的女人，她們可以自由地挑來選去。
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
懸念是可怕的。我希望它一直延續下去。
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Time is a waste of money.
時間是一種對金錢的浪費。
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune;to lose both looks like carelessness.
失去一個父母可以看成是一種不幸；失去雙親看上去就像是一種粗心了。
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelongromance.
愛自己就是開始一場延續一生的羅曼史。
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True friends stab you in the front.
當麵紮刀的是真朋友。
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When good Americans die they go to Paris. When badAmericans die they go to America.
當美國的好人死了，他們就去巴黎。當美國的壞蛋死了，他們就去美國。
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
所有糟糕的詩歌都源於真情實感。
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When I was young I used to think that money was themost important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is.
當我年輕時，我以為金錢是人生中最重要的東西。現在我老了，我知道這是真的。
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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer ourprayers.
當天神想要懲罰我們，他們就答應我們的祈禱。
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I mustbe wrong.
每當人們讚同我時，我總希望自己一定是錯了。
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men alwaysare. That is the difference between the sexes.
恭維話從來沒有讓女人繳械，但可以讓男人繳械。這就是性別差異。
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Women have a much better time than men in this world.There are far more things forbidden to them.
女人在世上的日子要比男人好過得多。她們有太多禁忌。
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Women love men for their defects; if men haveenough of them women will forgive them everything, even their giganticintellects.
女人因為男人的缺點而愛男人；如果男人的缺點足夠多，女人什麼事都可以原諒他們，哪怕是他們的智力。
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind,just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
女人代表著物質戰勝了理智，正如男人代表著理智戰勝了道德。
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old menwant to be faithless, and cannot.
年輕人想要有信仰，但他們卻沒有；老年人不想要有信仰，但卻辦不到。