When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve. 当爱到了终点,软弱者哭泣,精明者马上去发现另外一个,聪明的早就预备了一个.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
没有伟大的艺术家是看事物真实的样子,如果他这样那他就不再是艺术家
I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit
我提供给你们的是你们没勇气去犯的罪
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about 总是善待别人的人对什么都不在意
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人,我们是才华横溢的失败者的国度,可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的讲演者
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise 痛苦的审判是那些虚伪的祝福
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. 情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. 请不要射击钢琴师,他已经尽力了.
The heart was made to be broken 心是用来碎的
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
公众是惊人地宽容,可以原谅一切除了天才
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
宗教会死亡,当他们需要证实是真的时候,科学是死亡宗教的记录
Why was I born with such contemporaries 为什么我会和这么多同代人一块出生呢?
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. 诗歌可以拯救一切除了印刷错误
Only the shallow know themselves. 只有影子才懂他们自己
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是被诱惑,我能抗拒一切除了诱惑.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation 不满是进步中的人或民族的第一步
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
我喜欢和自己说,因为节约时间和预防争论
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit 格言是智慧耐用的替代品
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
梦想家能发现用月光铺就的道路,惩罚是他比所有人提前看到曙光
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. 每个圣人都有过去,每个罪人都有未来
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
活着是世上最珍贵的,大多数人只是存在,仅此而已.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis. 我没什么好宣告的,除了我的天才
I like men who have a future and women who have a past 我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
悲观主义者是那种有机会选两种不幸而全都选择的人
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
社会仅仅以一种精神概念而存在,真实的世界仅仅是个体的
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
什么叫愤世嫉俗者?一个知道每个事物价格而不知道价值的人
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no
principles better than anything else in the world. 我喜欢人甚于原则,我还喜欢没原则的人甚于世界上的一切
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution 是忏悔而不是牧师给我们赦免
I don't want to earn my living; I want to live 我不想谋生,我想生活
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. 适度是致命的,没有什么事想过剩那么成功.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
比讨论更坏的唯一的事情是不讨论
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers 当神想惩罚我们的时候,他回应我们的祈祷
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
一个女人与一个坚持要把她当成完美正常的人的男人一起,怎么能指望获得快乐呢?
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction
我设想所有迷人的人都是被溺爱的,这是他们吸引力的秘密
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. 没有比冷静更让人恼火的
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. 声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一
The truth is rarely pure and never simple 真理很纯粹,可决不简单
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. 奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual 什么也不做是世上最难的事情,最难也最智力
A true friend stabs you in the front. 真朋友当面中伤你
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. 普通财富会失窃,真财富不会,你灵魂里面无限珍贵的东西不会离开你
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
教养与别人抵触,智慧和自己抵触
Hatred is blind, as well as love. 恨是盲目的,爱也是
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
注意穿着打扮是必要的,而有个生活目标却不是
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. 宽恕你的敌人,没什么能比这个让他们苦恼的了
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them
孩子最初爱他们父母,等大一些他们评判父母,有些时候,他们原谅父母
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
生活里有两个悲剧:一个是没有得到我们想要的,另外一个是得到了.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.
当某人在恋爱中,开始是欺骗自己,结束时候是欺骗别人,这就是罗漫史
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
绅士就是从不无意识伤害别人感觉的人
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative
谈论天气是无趣谈话最后的避难所
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead 真实生活就是我们不会引领的生活
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for
the curious attractiveness of others
邪恶是好人发明出来说明那些奇异而有魅力的人的神话
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography
每个伟人现今都有信徒,而传记总由叛徒来写
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. Biography lends to death a new terror.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Genius is born--not paid.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Why was I born with such contemporaries? Wisdom comes with winters.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. The only thing that sustains one through life is the
consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression_r. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
I can resist anything but temptation.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.