Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
奥斯卡·王尔德

英国作家、诗人、散文家

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。

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。

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。

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

雄心壮志是失败最后的避难所。

Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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。

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。