The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
逢場(chǎng)作戲和終身不渝之間的區(qū)別只在于逢場(chǎng)作戲稍微長(zhǎng)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.
愛(ài),始于自我欺騙,終于欺騙他人。這就是所謂的浪漫。
--戀愛(ài)總是以自欺開(kāi)始,以欺人結(jié)束。
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
浪漫的精髓就在于它充滿種種可能。
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
人是理性動(dòng)物,但當(dāng)他被要求按照理性的要求行動(dòng)時(shí),可又要發(fā)脾氣了。
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.
墻紙?jiān)絹?lái)越破,而我越來(lái)越老,兩者之間總有一個(gè)要先消失。--1900年11月30日,于左岸旅店,他的遺言。
No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
-An Ideal Husband (1895)
沒(méi)有人富有到可以贖回自己的過(guò)去。
--改編自《理想的丈夫》
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
真相很少純粹,也決不簡(jiǎn)單。
--《不可兒嬉》
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
愛(ài)自己是終身浪漫的開(kāi)始。
--愛(ài)自己就是開(kāi)始延續(xù)一生的羅曼史。
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我們都生活在陰溝里,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.
大多數(shù)人發(fā)現(xiàn)他們從未后悔的事情只是他們的錯(cuò)誤,但發(fā)現(xiàn)時(shí)已經(jīng)太晚了。
What is the chief cause of spanorce? Marriage.什么是離婚的主要原因?結(jié)婚。
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
當(dāng)愛(ài)情走到盡頭,軟弱者哭個(gè)不停,有效率的馬上去尋找下一個(gè)目標(biāo),而聰明的早就預(yù)備了下一個(gè)。
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
偉大的藝術(shù)家所看到的,從來(lái)都不是世界的本來(lái)面目。一旦他看透了,他就不再是藝術(shù)家。
I rePsent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
我給你們講述的是所有你們沒(méi)勇氣去犯的罪孽。
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
一個(gè)人總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.
我們愛(ài)爾蘭人太詩(shī)意以至不能做詩(shī)人,我們的國(guó)家里充滿才華橫溢的失敗者,可我們是自希臘人以來(lái)最偉大的說(shuō)空話之人。
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
看似痛苦的試煉的往往是偽裝的祝福。
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
情感的好處就是讓我們誤入歧途。
Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Personal ImPssions of America (Leadville) (1883)
鋼琴上貼著一條告示:請(qǐng)不要槍殺鋼琴師,他已經(jīng)盡力了。
The heart was made to be broken.
心是用來(lái)碎的。
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
公眾驚人地寬容。他們可以原諒一切,除了天才。
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
宗教一旦被證明是正確時(shí)就會(huì)消亡。科學(xué)便是已消亡宗教的記錄。
Why was I born with such contemporaries
為什么我會(huì)和這樣同時(shí)代的人一塊出生呢?
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
詩(shī)人可以從任何事件中存活,印刷錯(cuò)誤除外。
Only the shallow know themselves.
只有淺薄的人才了解自己。
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方式是臣服于誘惑……我能抗拒一切,除了誘惑。
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
不滿是個(gè)人或民族邁向進(jìn)步的第一步。
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and Pvents arguments.
我喜歡自言自語(yǔ),因?yàn)檫@樣節(jié)約時(shí)間,而且不會(huì)有人跟我爭(zhēng)論。
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.
夢(mèng)想家只能在月光下找到前進(jìn)的方向,他為此遭受的懲罰是比所有人提前看到曙光。
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
每個(gè)圣人都有過(guò)去,每個(gè)罪人都有未來(lái)。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世上最罕見(jiàn)的事情,大多數(shù)人只是存在,僅此而已。
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
除了我的天才,我沒(méi)什么好申報(bào)的。
I like men who have a future and women who have a past
我喜歡有未來(lái)的男人和有過(guò)去的女人。
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
悲觀主義者是這種人:當(dāng)他可以從兩種罪惡中選擇時(shí),他把兩種都選了。
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only inspaniduals.
社會(huì)僅僅以一種精神概念而存在,真實(shí)世界中只有個(gè)體存在。
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
一個(gè)憤世嫉俗的人知道所有東西的價(jià)格,卻不知道任何東西的價(jià)值。
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
我喜歡人甚于原則,此外我還喜歡沒(méi)原則的人甚于世界上的一切。
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution
給我們赦免的,是懺悔而不是牧師。
I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.
我不想謀生;我想生活。
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
適度是極其致命的事情。過(guò)度帶來(lái)的成功是無(wú)可比擬的。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人議論更糟糕,那就是沒(méi)有人議論你。
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
-An Ideal husband, 1893
當(dāng)神想懲罰我們時(shí),他們就回應(yīng)我們的祈禱。
-《一個(gè)理想的丈夫》
"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
-An Ideal Husband,1893
生活從來(lái)不是公平的……而且,或許對(duì)我們大多數(shù)人來(lái)說(shuō),這是件好事。
-《一個(gè)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.
如果男人堅(jiān)持把她當(dāng)作一個(gè)完全正常的人,女人如何能期望會(huì)從他那里獲得幸福。
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寵愛(ài)著的,這是他們吸引力來(lái)源的秘密。
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
沒(méi)有比冷靜更讓人惱火的。
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
聲望是我從未經(jīng)受的侮辱之一。
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
奚落是庸才對(duì)天才的頌歌。
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難的事情,最困難并且最智慧。
A true friend stabs you in the front.
真朋友才會(huì)當(dāng)面中傷你。
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely Pcious things that cannot be taken from you.
平常的財(cái)寶會(huì)被偷走,而真正的財(cái)富則不會(huì)。你靈魂里無(wú)限珍貴的東西是無(wú)法被奪走的。
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
教養(yǎng)良好的人處處和他人過(guò)不去,頭腦聰明的人處處和自己過(guò)不去。
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
恨是盲目的,愛(ài)亦然。
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
注意穿著打扮是必要的。而擁有生活目標(biāo)卻并非如此。
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
永遠(yuǎn)寬恕你的敵人,沒(méi)有什么能比這個(gè)更讓他們惱怒的了。
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them
孩子最初愛(ài)他們父母,等大一些他們?cè)u(píng)判父母;然后有些時(shí)候,他們?cè)徃改浮?/P>
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
生活中只有兩種悲劇:一個(gè)是沒(méi)有得到我們想要的,另外一個(gè)是得到我們想要的。
--世上只有兩類悲劇,有些人總是不能遂愿,而有些人總是心想事成。
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
紳士就是從不無(wú)心傷害別人感覺(jué)的人。
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative
談?wù)撎鞖馐菬o(wú)趣人類最后的避難所。
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
真實(shí)生活就通常就是我們無(wú)法掌控的生活。
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
邪惡是善良的人們編造的謊言,用來(lái)解釋其他人的特殊魅力。
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography
現(xiàn)在每個(gè)偉人都有自己的信徒,而他們的傳記總由叛徒來(lái)寫。
The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.
愚人創(chuàng)造了這個(gè)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.
男人因疲倦而結(jié)婚,女人因好奇而結(jié)婚;最終他們都會(huì)失望。
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
已婚者的快樂(lè)來(lái)自那些他沒(méi)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年的韻事使女人變成一片廢墟,20年的婚姻使女人變成一座公共建筑。
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.
女人再嫁是因?yàn)樵鲪呵胺,男人再娶是因(yàn)樘珢?ài)前妻。
--女人再嫁是因?yàn)橛憛捲瓉?lái)的丈夫,男人再娶是因?yàn)樘珢?ài)原來(lái)的妻子。在尋找配偶時(shí),女人習(xí)慣碰運(yùn)氣,而男人則會(huì)冒險(xiǎn)。
Men become old, but they never become good.
人們?cè)介L(zhǎng)越老,但絕不會(huì)越變?cè)胶谩?/P>
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice to man is great.
人類的進(jìn)化很緩慢。他們?cè)馐艿牟还鲲@而易見(jiàn)。
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
對(duì)富有的單身漢應(yīng)該客以重稅。讓某些人比其他人更快樂(lè)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.
情感的好處就是讓我們引入歧途,而科學(xué)的好處是不感情用事。
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
我敬佩簡(jiǎn)單的快樂(lè),那是復(fù)雜的最后避難所。
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
除了感官,什么也不能治靈魂的創(chuàng)痛,同樣,感官的饑渴也只有靈魂解除得了。
A good name, like good will, is got by many action and lost by one.
一個(gè)好的名聲,就像好的意向一樣,在很多個(gè)舉動(dòng)的形成,在一個(gè)舉動(dòng)中失去。
It is absurd to spanide people in to good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
把人分成好的與壞的是荒謬的,人要么迷人,要么乏味。
-《溫夫人的扇子》
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
-The Sphinx Without a Secret
女人是用來(lái)被愛(ài)的,不是用來(lái)被理解的。
-《沒(méi)有秘密的斯芬克斯》
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
藝術(shù)并非模仿生活,而是生活在模仿藝術(shù)。
Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
每個(gè)人生來(lái)都是君王,但大多數(shù)在流亡中死去。
When I was young , I used to think that money was the most important thing in life , now that I am old , I know it is.
我年青時(shí)以為金錢至上,而今年事已邁,發(fā)現(xiàn)果真如此。
Don't be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, don't believe them.
不要懼怕過(guò)去。如果人們告訴你說(shuō)過(guò)去的事情無(wú)可挽回,別相信他們。
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
一個(gè)思想若稱不上危險(xiǎn),那么它就不值得被稱作思想。
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
爭(zhēng)論是俗不可耐的,因?yàn)榈赖律鐣?huì)里每個(gè)人都持完全相同的觀點(diǎn)。
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
死亡和庸俗是十九世紀(jì)僅有的無(wú)法用巧辯逃避的東西。
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
愛(ài)國(guó)是惡人的美德。
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
每次人們贊同我的時(shí)候,我都覺(jué)得自己一定錯(cuò)了。
I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors.
我一點(diǎn)都不浪漫。我還不算太老。還是把浪漫留給比我老的人吧。
Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.
壞女人給我麻煩。好女人令我厭煩。這就是她們唯一的不同。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
每個(gè)人犯了錯(cuò)誤,都自稱是經(jīng)驗(yàn)。經(jīng)典語(yǔ)錄出自:m.5728338.com 思而學(xué)教育
--經(jīng)驗(yàn)是一個(gè)人給自己所犯的錯(cuò)誤取的名字。
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Literary and Other Notes I, Woman's World (November 1887)
時(shí)尚是一種讓人難以忍受的丑陋,以至于我們不得不每六個(gè)月就更改一次。
--時(shí)裝丑陋得完全令人無(wú)法容忍,以至于我們必須每6個(gè)月就改變它的樣式。
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傳,女人的面容是她的幻想作品。
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
女人的生活中只有一個(gè)真正的悲。核傇诰拺堰^(guò)去,卻必須活在未來(lái)。
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
我們教給人們?nèi)绾斡洃,卻從來(lái)不教他們?nèi)绾纬砷L(zhǎng)。
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
-The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
任何人都能對(duì)朋友的不幸感到同情,但要消受一個(gè)春風(fēng)得意的朋友,則需要非常優(yōu)良的天性。
-《下人的靈魂》
"If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
如果一個(gè)女人不能讓她犯的錯(cuò)誤變得迷人,她就只是一個(gè)雌性動(dòng)物。
-《亞瑟薩維爾勛爵的罪行》
"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
大多數(shù)男人和女人被強(qiáng)迫扮演他們沒(méi)有能力扮演的角色。我們的吉爾登斯吞為我們演哈姆雷特,而我們的哈姆雷特必須像霍爾王子一樣來(lái)說(shuō)笑。這個(gè)世界是個(gè)舞臺(tái),但角色被分配得很糟糕。
--《亞瑟薩維爾勛爵的罪行》
注:吉爾登斯吞,霍爾王子均為莎士比亞作品中人物
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
不夠真誠(chéng)是危險(xiǎn)的,太真誠(chéng)則絕對(duì)是致命的。
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
一個(gè)人在選擇他的敵人時(shí),再小心也不為過(guò)。
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
所有女人都會(huì)變得像她們的母親一樣,這是女人的悲劇。但沒(méi)有男人變得像他們的父親,這是男人的悲劇。
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
美國(guó)是唯一一個(gè)直接從野蠻進(jìn)入頹廢、中間沒(méi)有經(jīng)過(guò)文明階段的社會(huì)。
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
要避免爭(zhēng)論,爭(zhēng)論總是俗不可耐,而且常常令人信服。
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
只要一個(gè)女人看上去比她自己的女兒小十歲,她就一定會(huì)心滿意足。
Bad artists always admire each other's work.
糟糕的畫家總是欣賞彼此的作品。
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
男女之間不可能存在友誼,有的只是愛(ài)恨情仇。
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
良心和怯懦其實(shí)是一回事。
Dammit sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't be always living for pleasure.
該死,先生,結(jié)婚是你的職責(zé),你不能總是逍遙快活。
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
民主就是指人民用人民的大頭棒打擊人民。
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
不要給女人忠告;決不要給女人任何她晚上不能穿戴的東西。
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是一件可敬的事,但要時(shí)刻牢記,沒(méi)有什么值得知道的事是教得會(huì)的。
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
我喜歡政治晚會(huì),這是唯一人們不談?wù)蔚牡胤健?/P>
I am not young enough to know everything.
我已經(jīng)老了,沒(méi)有足夠的時(shí)間去了解一切。
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I’m saying.
我簡(jiǎn)直太聰明了,有時(shí)連我自己都不知道自己在說(shuō)什么。
I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication.
我有一個(gè)重大發(fā)現(xiàn)--如果攝入足量酒精,就會(huì)產(chǎn)生各種陶醉的效果。
I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me.
我喜歡對(duì)一堵墻說(shuō)話,世界上只有它不會(huì)反駁我。
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
我喜歡看戲。與人生相比,戲劇更加真實(shí)。
I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
我經(jīng)常鍛煉。只是昨天我是在床上吃的早飯。
I think that God, in creating Man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
我想,上帝在創(chuàng)造人類時(shí)高估了他的能力。
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
我整個(gè)早上都在校對(duì)自己的一首詩(shī),我去掉了一個(gè)逗號(hào)。下午我又把它加上去了。
Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the bloom is gone.
無(wú)知就像是一朵精致的花朵:摸一下,它就消失了。
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
這是一件很悲哀的事--如今幾乎沒(méi)有無(wú)用的信息。
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
美麗要比善良好,善良要比難看強(qiáng)。
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
所有人類的重大問(wèn)題都有一個(gè)共同點(diǎn):沒(méi)有點(diǎn)幽默和瘋狂是沒(méi)辦法解決的。
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
爭(zhēng)論者損失的只是智力。
It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.
來(lái)自敵人的困難可以忍,來(lái)自朋友的成功則無(wú)可忍。
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
人生就是一件蠢事追著另一件蠢事而來(lái),而愛(ài)情則是兩個(gè)蠢東西追來(lái)追去。
Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
就像親愛(ài)的圣芳濟(jì)一樣,我也和貧窮聯(lián)姻,但我的婚姻并不成功。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
結(jié)婚是想象戰(zhàn)勝了理智,再婚是希望戰(zhàn)勝了經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
Music makes one feel so romantic-at least it always gets on one's nerves, which is the same thing nowadays.
音樂(lè)讓人感覺(jué)非常浪漫,至少讓人感覺(jué)不安,如今兩者是一回事。
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
沒(méi)有女人應(yīng)該對(duì)她的年齡十分準(zhǔn)確。這顯得有些精于算計(jì)。
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
一個(gè)人決不應(yīng)該相信說(shuō)出自己真實(shí)年齡的女人。如果她把這都說(shuō)出來(lái)了,那她什么都會(huì)說(shuō)。
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.
請(qǐng)轉(zhuǎn)告我對(duì)這家飯店廚師的贊譽(yù),這是全世界最糟糕的三明治了,還有,我點(diǎn)的是豆瓣菜三明治,我并不是要面包片中夾一塊菜田。
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
樂(lè)觀的基礎(chǔ)完全是恐懼。
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden…It ends with Revelations.
《生命之書(shū)》始于一座花園里的一男一女……它最后以《啟示錄》告終。
The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
報(bào)紙和文學(xué)的區(qū)別是,報(bào)紙沒(méi)法讀,而文學(xué)則沒(méi)人讀。
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
對(duì)于忠告,你所能做的,就是把它奉送給別人,忠告從來(lái)就不是給自己準(zhǔn)備的。
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方法是屈服于它。
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
演出相當(dāng)成功,但觀眾則是一場(chǎng)災(zāi)難。
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
懸念是可怕的。我希望它一直延續(xù)下去。
Time is a waste of money.
時(shí)間是一種對(duì)金錢的浪費(fèi)。
Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
三十五歲是一個(gè)非常有吸引力的年齡;倫敦社交圈內(nèi)滿是這樣好多年一直保持三十五歲的女人,她們可以自由地挑來(lái)選去。
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
失去一個(gè)父母可以看成是一種不幸;失去雙親看上去就像是一種粗心了。
When good Americans die they go to Paris. When bad Americans die they go to America.
當(dāng)美國(guó)的好人死了,他們就去巴黎。當(dāng)美國(guó)的壞蛋死了,他們就去美國(guó)。
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
所有糟糕的詩(shī)歌都源于真情實(shí)感。自然化的作品其內(nèi)涵是顯而易見(jiàn)的,而顯而易見(jiàn)的內(nèi)涵并不藝術(shù)。
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
恭維話從來(lái)沒(méi)有讓女人繳械,但可以讓男人繳械。這就是性別差異。
Women have a much better time than men in this world. There are far more things forbidden to them.
女人在世上的日子要比男人好過(guò)得多。她們有太多禁忌。
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them women will forgive them everything, even their gigantic intellects.
女人因?yàn)槟腥说娜秉c(diǎn)而愛(ài)男人;如果男人的缺點(diǎn)足夠多,女人什么事都可以原諒他們,哪怕是他們的智力。
Women rePsent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men rePsent the triumph of mind over morals.
女人代表著物質(zhì)戰(zhàn)勝了理智,正如男人代表著理智戰(zhàn)勝了道德。
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
一個(gè)人倘若不為自己思考,那就從未思考過(guò)。
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
年輕人想有信仰,但他們卻沒(méi)有;老年人不想有信仰,但卻辦不到。
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
雄心壯志是失敗最后的避難所。
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
一個(gè)極其優(yōu)秀的人。他沒(méi)有敵人,而他的朋友也沒(méi)有一個(gè)喜歡他的。