当爱到了终点,软弱者哭泣,精明者马上去发现另外一个,聪明的早就预备了一个.no great artist ever sees things as they really are. if he did he would cease to be an artist.没有伟大的艺术家是看事物真实的样子,如果他这样那他就不再是艺术家one can always be kind to people one cares nothing about总是善待别人的人对什么都不在意we irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the greeks.我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人,我们是才华横溢的失败者的国度,可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的讲演者what seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise 痛苦的审判是那些虚伪的祝福the advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途please do not shoot the pianist. he is doing his best.请不要射击钢琴师,他已经尽力了.the heart was made to be broken心是用来碎的the public is wonderfully tolerant. it forgives everything except genius.公众是惊人地宽容,可以原谅一切除了天才religions die when they are proved to be true. science is the record of dead religions.宗教会死亡,当他们需要证实是真的时候,科学是死亡宗教的记录why was i born with such contemporaries为什么我会和这么多同代人一块出生呢?a poet can survive everything but a misprint.诗歌可以拯救一切除了印刷错误only the shallow know themselves.只有影子才懂他们自己the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... i can resist everything but temptation.摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是被被诱惑,我能抗拒一切除了诱惑.discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation 不满是进步中的人或民族的第一步i like to do all the talking myself. it saves time, and prevents arguments.我喜欢和自己说,因为节约时间和预防争论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.梦想家能发现用月光铺就的道路,惩罚是他比所有人提前看到曙光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to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all.活着是世上最珍贵的,大多数人只是存在,仅此而已.i have nothing to declare except my genuis.我没什么好宣告的,除了我的天才i like men who have a future and women who have a past我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.悲观主义者是那种有机会选两种不幸而全都选择的人society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.社会仅仅以一种精神概念而存在,真实的世界仅仅是个体的what is a cynic? a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing 什么叫愤世嫉俗者?一个知道每个事物价格而不知道价值的人i like persons better than principles, and i like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.我喜欢人甚于原则,我还喜欢没原则的人甚于世界上的一切it is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution 是忏悔而不是牧师给我们赦免i dont want to earn my living; i want to live我不想谋生,我想生活moderation is a fatal thing. nothing succeeds like excess.适度是致命的,没有什么事想过剩那么成功.the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.比讨论更坏的唯一的事情是不讨论when the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers当神想惩罚我们的时候,他回应我们的祈祷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.一个女人与一个坚持要把她当成完美正常的人的男人一起,怎么能指望获得快乐呢?all charming people, i fancy, are spoiled. it is the secret of their attraction 我设想所有迷人的人都是被溺爱的,这是他们吸引力的秘密nothing is so aggravating than calmness.没有比冷静更让人恼火的popularity is the one insult i have never suffered.声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一the truth is rarely pure and never simple真理很纯粹,可决不简单ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌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难的事情,最难也最智力a true friend stabs you in the front.真朋友当面中伤你ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. in your soul are infinitelyprecious things that cannot be taken from you.普通财富会失窃,真财富不会,你灵魂里面无限珍贵的东西不会离开你the well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.教养与别人抵触,智慧和自己抵触hatred is blind, as well as love.恨是盲目的,爱也是looking good and dressing well is a necessity. having a purpose in life is not.注意穿着打扮是必要的,而有个生活目标却不是always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.宽恕你的敌人,没什么能比这个让他们苦恼的了children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them孩子最初爱他们父母,等大一些他们评判父母,有些时候,他们原谅父母there are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.生活里有两个悲剧:一个是没有得到我们想要的,另外一个是得到了.a gentleman is one who never hurts anyones feelings unintentionally.绅士就是从不无意识伤害别人感觉的人conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative谈论天气是无趣谈话最后的避难所ones real life is often the life that one does not lead真实生活就是我们不会引领的生活wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others邪恶是好人发明出来说明那些奇异而有魅力的人的神话every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always judas who writes the biography每个伟人现今都有信徒,而传记总由叛徒来写the world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it. 傻瓜创造了世界，聪明人不得不生活于其中。