Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations.
--De Profundis
爱是用想象力滋养的，这使我们比自己知道的更聪慧，比自我感觉的更良好，比本来的为人更高尚；这使我们能将生活看作一个整体；只要这样、只有这样，我们才能以现实也以理想的关系看待理解他人。
(注：中文翻译直接引用朱纯深的原译句。）
——《自深深处》

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地带。
——《温夫人的扇子》

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
人生就是一件蠢事接着一件蠢事，而爱情却是两个蠢东西互相追来追去。

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
-- The Picture of Dorian Gray
我们生活的时代，无谓的东西是我们唯一的必需品。
——《道林格雷的画像》

"In a very ugly and sensible age the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other."
-- "Pen, Pencil and Poison: A Study in Green"
在一个非常丑陋和理智的时代，艺术不是借鉴于生活而是彼此借鉴。
——《钢笔、铅笔和毒药： 格林研究》

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
-- Oscar Wilde on William Shakespeare
现在，为了承认那些语录，我们得耐着性子看完莎士比亚。
——王尔德关于莎士比亚的谈论。

MRS ALLONBY: Is she such a mystery?
LORD ILLINGWORTH: She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.
MRS ALLONBY: Moods don't last.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: It is their chief charm.
― from "A Woman of No Importance" by Oscar Wilde
爱伦比太太：她就这么神秘？
伊林沃思勋爵：她不止是个谜 - 她是一种情绪。
爱伦比太太：情绪不会持续太久。
伊林沃思勋爵：这就是她们主要的魅力。

The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one’s cell, as it is always midnight in one’s heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more. The thing that you personally have long ago forgotten, or can easily forget, is happening to me now, and will happen to me again to-morrow.
--De Profundis
那太阳、那月亮，似乎都从我们的天穹拿掉了。外面也许是蓝天丽日，但是透过头顶小小的铁窗那封得严严的玻璃，漏下的只是一点点灰暗的光线。牢房里整天是晨昏不辨，一如内心中整天是半夜三更。思维也同时间一样，不再有任何运动。你自己早已忘却的事，或者很容易就忘却的事，现在我正身历其境，明天还将再历其境。
——《自深深处》
(注：中文翻译直接引用朱纯深的原译句。）

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-The Importance of Being Earnest
真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。
----《不可儿戏》

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-The Importance of Being Earnest
真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。
----《不可儿戏》

"There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
--Lord Goring from "An Ideal Husband"
人们谈及的蠢事要比想象得更多。我个人而言，对愚蠢怀有很高的敬意。我猜也许是出于一种感同身受。
——《理想丈夫》

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
我一上午都在斟酌一首诗，并且删掉了一个逗号，下午，我又加了回去。

"Are the commentators on 'Hamlet' really mad, or only pretending to be."
-- Oscar Wilde
关于《哈姆雷特》，那些评论员是真疯了还是装的？

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
-- "The Importance of Being Earnest"
我出去旅行从来不落下日记本。一个人在火车上总是得读点什么煽情的东西。
——《不可儿戏》

"The English can't stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits he has been in the wrong. It is one of the best things in them."
英国人不能忍受一个总说自己正确的男人，但他们特别喜欢承认错误的男人，这对他们来说是再好不过的一件事。