Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative
奥斯卡·王尔德

英国作家、诗人、散文家

爱,始于自我欺骗,终于欺骗他人,这就是所谓的浪漫。

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.

恭维话从来没有让女人缴械,但可以让男人缴械。这就是性别差异。

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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。

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

钢琴上贴着一条告示:请不要枪杀钢琴师,他已经尽力了。

Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

我喜欢对一堵墙说话,世界上只有它不会反驳我。

I like talking to a brick wall, it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me.

没有伟大的艺术家是看事物真实的样子,如果他这样他就不再是艺术家。

No great artist ever sees things as they really are ,If he did he would cease to be a artist.

请转告我对这家饭店厨师的赞誉,这是全世界最糟糕的三明治了,还有,我点的是豆瓣菜三明治,我并不是要面包片中夹一块菜田。

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that when I ask for a watercress sandwich I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

20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。

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building.

女人是用来被爱的,不是用来被理解。

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

我经常锻炼。只是昨天我是在床上吃的早饭。

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

除了我的天才,我没什么好申报的。

I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors.

我一点都不浪漫。我还不算太老。还是把浪漫留给比我老的人吧。

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。

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。

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

对于忠告,你所能做的,就是把它奉送给别人,忠告从来就不是给自己准备的。

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

只要一个女人看上去比她自己的女儿小十岁,她就一定会心满意足。

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

悬念是可怕的。我希望它一直延续下去。