摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是服从它。除了诱惑，我可以抵抗任何东西。The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. I can resist anything but temptation.

敌人造成的困难很容易忍受，朋友取得的成功却让人很难忍受。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.

世界上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没人议论你。The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

人生的悲剧只有两种：一种是没有得到自己想要的东西，另一种是得到自己想要的东西。There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

一个人总是可以善待他毫不在乎的人。One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

任何人都能对朋友的不幸感到同情，但要消受一个春风得意的朋友，则需要非常优良的天性。Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

我喜欢看戏。与人生相比，戏剧更加真实。I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

我想所有迷人的人都是被宠爱着的，这是他们魅力来源的秘密。All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction

每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

一个思想若称不上危险，那么它就不值得被称作思想。An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”做你自己，因为别人都有人做了。

“I can resist everything except temptation.”除了诱惑，我什么都能抵挡。

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是屈服于它。

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”有些人无论去哪里都带去快乐，而有些人无论何时离开都带走快乐。

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”经验只是我们给予错误的别称。

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”永远原谅你的敌人，没有什么比这更能激怒他们了。

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”愤世嫉俗者是指知道一切价格，却对价值一无所知的人。

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”真相很少纯粹，也从不简单。

“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。

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”爱自己是一场终生浪漫的开始。

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”一个好朋友总是从正面捅你一刀。

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”女人是用来被爱的，不是用来被理解的。

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”生活太重要了，不能太当真。

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”道德只不过是我们对个人反感的人所采取的一种态度。

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”任何生活在自己能力范围内的人，都是缺乏想象力的人。

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”圣人与罪人唯一的区别就是每个圣人都有过去，而每个罪人都有未来。

“No good deed goes unpunished.”善行无行，无不受罚。

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”时尚是一种无法忍受的丑陋，所以我们每六个月就得改变一次。

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”世界是舞台，但角色安排得极其糟糕。

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”失去一个父母可能被视为不幸；失去两个看起来则是粗心。

“I am not young enough to know everything.”我还不够年轻，无法什么都知道。

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”民主意味着人民被人民为了人民所打击。

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”生活中唯一比被谈论更糟糕的事，就是无人谈论。

“True friends stab you in the front.”真正的朋友从正面捅你刀子。

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”幻觉是一切快乐的源泉。

“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。

“Genius is born—not paid.”天才是天生的

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”一个男人和任何女人都能幸福，只要他不爱她。

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”嘲笑是平庸者给予天才的礼物。

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”老年人相信一切，中年人怀疑一切，年轻人则懂得一切。