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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。
——
恋爱总是以自欺开始，以欺人结
束。
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。
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，
我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，
可我们是自希
腊人以来
最伟大的说空话之人。
What seems to us as bitter trials are
often blessings in disguise
看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福。
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。
Over the piano
was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the
pianist. He is doing his best.
Personal Impressions of America
(Leadville) (1883)
钢琴上贴着一条告示：请不要枪杀钢琴师，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.
公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切，除了天才。
Religions die
when they are proved to be true. Science is the
record of dead religions.
宗
教一旦被证明是正确时就会消亡。科学便是已消亡宗教的记录。
Why was I born
with such contemporaries
为什么我会和这样同时代的人一块出生呢？
A poet can
survive everything but a misprint.
诗人可以从任何事件中存活，印刷错误除外。
Only the
shallow know themselves.
只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
The
only
way
to
get
rid
of
temptation
is
to
yield
to
it...
I
can
resist
everything
but
temptation.
摆脱诱惑
的唯一方式是臣服于诱惑
……
我能抗拒一切，除了诱惑。
Discontent is the first step in the
progress of a man or a nation
不满是个人或民族迈向进步的第一步。
I like to do
all the talking myself. It saves time, and
prevents arguments.
我喜欢自言自语，因为这样节约时间，而且不会有人跟我争论。
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.
梦想家只能在月光
下找到前进的方向，他为此遭受的惩罚是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.
生活是世上最罕见的事情，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
I have nothing
to declare except my genius.
除了我的天才，我没什么好申报的。
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.
悲观主义者是这种人：当他可以从两种罪恶中选
择时，他把两种都选了。
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，真实世界中只有个体存在。
What is a
cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and
the value of nothing
一个愤世嫉俗
的人知道所有东西的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值。
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，此外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
给我们赦免的，是忏悔而不是牧师。
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.
适度是极其致命的事情。过度带来的成功是无可比拟的。
The only thing
worse than being talked about is not being talked
about.
世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没有人议论你。
When the gods
wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
-An Ideal husband, 1893
当神想惩罚我们时，他们就回应我们的祈祷。
-
《一个理想的丈夫》
...And perhaps it is a good
thing for most of us that it is not.
-An Ideal
Husband
，
1893
生活从来不是公平的
……
而且，或许对我们大
多数人来说，这是件好事。
-
《一个理想的丈夫》
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.
如果男人坚持把
她当作一个完全正常的人，女人如何能期望会从他那里获得幸福。
All charming
people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of
their attraction
我想所有迷人的人都是
被宠爱着的，这是他们吸引力来源的秘密。
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。
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，最困难并且最智慧。
A true friend
stabs you in the front.
真朋友才会当面中伤你。
Ordinary riches can be
stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are
infinitely precious things
that cannot
be taken from you.
平常的财宝会被偷
走，而真正的财富则不会。你灵魂里无限珍贵的东西是无法被夺走的。
The well bred
contradict other people. The wise contradict
themselves.
教养良好的人处处和他人过不去，
头脑聪明的人处处和自己过不去。
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
恨是盲目的，爱亦然。
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。而拥有生活目标却并非如此。
Always forgive
your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
永远宽恕你的敌人，没有什么能比这个更让他们恼怒的了。
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；然
后有些时候，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
活中只有两种悲剧
:
一个是没有得到我们想要的，另外一个是得
到我们想要的。
——
世上只有两类悲剧，有些人总是不能遂愿，而有些人总是心想事成。
A gentleman is
one who never hurts anyone's feelings
unintentionally.
绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人。
Conversation
about the weather is the last refuge of the
unimaginative
谈论天气是无趣人类最后的避难所。
One's real life is often
the life that one does not lead.
真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。
Wickedness is a
myth invented by good people to account for the
curious attractiveness of
others
邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言，用来解释其他人的特殊魅力。
Every
great
man
nowadays
has
his
disciples,
and
it
is
always
Judas
who
writes
the
biography
现在每个伟人都有自己的信徒，而他们的传记总由叛徒来写。
The world has
been made by fools that wise men should live in
it.
愚人创造了这个世界，智者不得不活在其中。
Men
marry
because
they
are
tired;
women
because
they
are
curious;
both
are
disappointed.
男人因疲倦而结婚，女人因好奇而结婚；最终他们都会失望。
The happiness
of a married man depends on the people he has not
married.
已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。
Twenty years of
romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty
years of marriage
make her look like a
public building.
20
< br>年的韵事使女人变成一片废墟，
20
年的婚姻使女人变成
一座公共建筑。
When a woman marries again,it is
because she detested her first a man
marries again,it is because he adored
his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk
theirs.
女人再嫁是因为憎恶前夫，男人再娶是因为太爱前妻。
——
女人再嫁是因为讨厌原来的丈夫
，男人再娶是因为太爱原来的妻子。在寻找配偶时，女
人习惯碰运气，而男人则会冒险。
Men
become old, but they never become good.
人们越长越老，但绝不会越变越好。
The evolution
of man is slow. The injustice to man is great.
人类的进化很缓慢。他们遭受的不公待遇显而易见。
Rich bachelors
should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some
men should be happier than
others.
对富有的单身汉应该客以重税。让某些人比其他人更快乐是不
公平的。
The advantage of the emotions is that
they lead us astray, and the advantage of science
is
that it is not emotional.
情感的好处就是让我们引入歧途，而科学的好处是不感情用事。
I adore simple
pleasures. They are the last refuge of the
complex.
我敬佩简单的快乐，那是复杂的最后避难所。
Nothing can
cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can
cure the senses but the soul.
< br>除了感官，什么也不能治灵魂的创痛，同样，感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了。
A good name,
like good will, is got by many action and lost by
one.
一个好的名声，就像好的意向一样，在很多个举动
的形成，在一个举动中失去。
It is absurd to divide people in to
good and bad. People are either charming or
tedious.
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