"When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
--from "De Profundis" (1897)
当一个人称量太阳的重量，量度月亮的脚步，一颗一颗地绘制七重天的星星的时候，他还保持着自我。可是，谁能测算自己灵魂的轨迹？
——《自深深处》（1897）

"Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
--"Sebastian Melmoth"
谁都能同情朋友的不幸，但要能做到为朋友的成功感到欢欣，那他就需要具备高贵的品质。
——塞巴斯蒂安. 梅莫斯
注：塞巴斯蒂安. 梅莫斯是王尔德出狱后的化名。

Questions are never indiscreet; answers sometimes are.
-------Mrs. Cheveley from "An Ideal Husband"
提问永远不是轻率的，而回答有时候却是。
----《理想丈夫》

"There are only two kinds of people who are fascinating - people who Know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
----The picture of Dorian Gray
只有两种人令人着迷，一种人无所不知，另一种人一无所知。
----道林格雷的画像。

"If you pretend to be good the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
-- Lady Windmere's Fan
如果你装好人，全世界都对你当真，要是你装坏人，那就没人把你当回事。这就是乐观主义惊人的愚蠢。
-----《温夫人的扇子》

"Oh! It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."
-- "The Importance of Being Ernest"
哦！严格规定一个人应该读什么和不应该读什么的规则真是荒唐。超过一半的现代文化都依赖于那些我们不应该阅读的内容。
——《不可儿戏》

“The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties."
-- The Picture of Dorian Gray
让欺骗成为夫妻生活中的绝对需要，这就是婚姻的众多魅力中的一个。
——道林格雷的画像

"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic."
-- "The Model Millionaire"
浪漫是有钱人的特权，不是失业者的表白。穷人应该实际而平淡。
——《百万富翁模型》

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
越是超离时代的人越能很好地反映当代。

men know life too early, women know life too late--that's different between men and women.
-- A woman of no importance
对于人生，男人太早明白，女人则懂得太晚——这就是男人和女人的区别。
——《无关紧要的女人》

"With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
--THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM
废除了私有财产之后，我们将拥有真实、美丽、健康的个人主义。没有人会浪费生命于物质的积累以及这些东西的符号象征上。人的生活将是世界上最珍贵的事情。众生只是一种存在，再无其他。
——《社会主义下人的灵魂》

To reveal art and conceal artist is art's aim.
—The picture of Dorian Gray.
艺术的目标是揭示艺术并隐藏艺术家。
------《道林格雷的画像》

"It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they're alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life."
-- "Lady Windermere's Fan"
这年头，丈夫在公众面前对妻子盯得太紧可是件非常危险的事情，它总会叫人以为老公会在私下里打老婆。任何看起来幸福快乐的婚姻都这么让人心生怀疑。
——《温夫人的扇子》