Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
奥斯卡·王尔德

英国作家、诗人、散文家

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。

A poet can service everything but a misprint.

诗人可以拯救一切除了印刷错误。

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.

我和我的墙纸即将展开生死决斗,所以我们中的一个必须得走。

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。

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?

Only the shallow know themselves.

只有浅薄的人才了解自己。

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

艺术并非模仿生活,而是生活在模仿艺术。

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。

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。

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

失去一个父母可以看成是一种不幸;失去双亲看上去就像是一种粗心了。

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

男人的面孔是他的自传,女人的面容是她的幻想作品。

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。

Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

就像亲爱的圣芳济一样,我也和贫穷联姻,但我的婚姻并不成功。