It is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the
first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful
position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the
kind.
--The Importance of Being Earnest
被迫说出真相对我来说是一件非常痛苦的事情。我的人生第一次沦落到如此痛苦的境地，在这种事方面，我实在是一点经验都没有。
——《不可儿戏》

Secrets from otherpeople*s wives are a necessary luxury in modern life. So, at least, I am toldat the club by people who are bald enough to know better. But no man shouldhave a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds it out. Women have awonderful instinct about things. They discover everything except the obvious.
-- "An IdealHusband"
现代社会里，帮别人保守秘密瞒住妻子，实在是件必可少的赏心悦目之事，至少在俱乐部里的那些秃头男人应该是最明白不过的，却总是要跟我说这种事。可是男人真不该对妻子藏着秘密，毕竟总会被发现的。在很多事情方面，女人天生拥有绝佳的直觉，除了显而易见的事情以外，什么事都瞒不过她们。
——《理想丈夫》

The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism.
-- "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
大多数人以不健康而又夸张的利他主义搞糟了自己的生活。
——《社会主义制度下人的灵魂》

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
嘲讽是庸人对天才的颂歌

"I really don*t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic
to be in love, but there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.
Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
--The Importance of Being Earnest
我真看不出求婚有什么浪漫可言。谈情说爱当然浪漫得紧，但是有板有眼地求婚可是一点也不浪漫。真是不明白，这么不浪漫的事情还会有人接受，并且，我相信，通常就是如此。结果呢，那点浪漫的兴头就全丢了。殊不知，浪漫最精髓之处就在于它的捉摸不定。
——不可儿戏。

"It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so
difficult for them to have sympathy with thought."
-- THE CRITIC AS ARTIST
同情苦难很容易，但要同理思想却很难。
——《艺术家的批判》

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names
to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions, my one
quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in
literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
-- the Picture of Dorian Gray
可悲的是，我们已丧失赋予事物爱的名字的能力，随便什么东西都可以拿来做名字。我从来不和人争斗，我只用文字来争辩。这就是我讨厌文学中庸俗现实主义的原因。一个直言不讳的人，就应当强迫他干这种不讨喜的活，因为他就只适合干这个。
——道林格雷的画像

"I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment*s notice. As a man sows so let him reap."
--The Importance of Being Earnest
让坏人立刻变成好人，这种说变就变的现代式狂热，我是最不赞成的，是坏人就得恶有恶报。
——不可儿戏。

The world has beenmade by fools that wise men should live in it.
傻子创造了这个世界，聪明人就该住在里面。

"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
--Lady Windermere*s Fan
生活中的第一场悲剧是行动，跟着就到言语。恐怕言语更惨。言语是残酷无情的。
——温夫人的扇子

There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one*s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice."
--Lady Windermere from "Lady Windermere*s Fan"
我们所有人都有一个相同的世界，善与恶、罪孽与纯真，错综交织于这个世界。漠视半生才能生活太平，如同自视盲人，这样也许才能安然走过布满坑洼和悬崖的地带。
——《温夫人的扇子》

There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it and the other
to like it rationally.
不喜欢艺术的方式有两种，一种是就不喜欢，另一种是理性化地喜欢。

"No artist isever morbid. The artist can express everything."
艺术家从就不是病态的，艺术家可以表现一切。
——道林格雷的画像

"No artist isever morbid. The artist can express everything."
艺术家从就不是病态的，艺术家可以表现一切。
——道林格雷的画像

They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or,
in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor."
--THE SOUL OF MAN
他们试着去解决贫困问题，比如让穷人能生存下去，或者让他们进入最优质的学校，让他们在那里娱乐消遣。
——社会主义制度下人的灵魂