31. Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
良心和怯懦其实是一回事。
32. Why was I born with such contemporaries
为什么我会和这样同时代的人一块出生呢？33. Only the shallow know themselves.
只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
34. And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）
时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋，以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次。
35. 墙纸越来越破，而我越来越老，两者之间总有一个要先消失。
36. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
艺术并非模仿生活，而是生活在模仿艺术。
37. 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。
38. One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。
39. To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
失去一个父母可以看成是一种不幸；失去双亲看上去就像是一种粗心了。
40. 任何的艺术作品都无法表达观点，观点属于人，而非艺术家。
41. A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
男人的面孔是他的自传，女人的面容是她的幻想作品。
42. Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
悲观主义者是这种人：当他可以从两种罪恶中选择时，他把两种都选了。
43. Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
就像亲爱的圣芳济一样，我也和贫穷联姻，但我的婚姻并不成功。
44. 一个自身美好的主题对于艺术家毫无启示，它缺乏缺陷。
45. The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
真理很纯粹，可决不简单。
46. 我们这个时代的人，读书太多，所以不再聪慧，思考太多所以不再美丽。
a) 逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些。
47. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
除了感官，什么也不能治灵魂的创痛，同样，感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了。
48. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
争论是俗不可耐的，因为道德社会里每个人都持完全相同的观点。
49. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
当神想惩罚我们时，他们就回应我们的祈祷。
50. Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.
坏女人给我麻烦。好女人令我厌烦。这就是她们唯一的不同。
51. I adore simple pleasures.They are the last refuge of the complex.
我敬佩简单的快乐，那是复杂性最后避难所。
52. Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌。
53. Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them women will forgive them everything, even their gigantic intellects.
女人因为男人的缺点而爱男人；如果男人的缺点足够多，女人什么事都可以原谅他们，哪怕是他们的智力。
54. 犯罪并非是低级，但是低级都是犯罪。
55. The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.
愚人创造了这个世界，智者不得不活在其中。
56. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden…It ends with Revelations.
《生命之书》始于一座花园里的一男一女……它最后以《启示录》告终。
57. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution
给我们赦免的，是忏悔而不是牧师。
58. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言，用来解释其他人的特殊魅力。
59. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
一个人倘若不为自己思考，那就从未思考过。
60. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
一个极其优秀的人。他没有敌人，而他的朋友也没有一个喜欢他的。
61. I can resist everything except temptation.
除了诱惑之外，我可以抵抗任何事物。
62. A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
诗人可以从任何事件中存活，印刷错误除外。
63. The heart was made to be broken.
心是用来碎的。
64. 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。
65. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
格言是智慧耐用的替代品。
66. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕了，那就是没有人议论你。
67. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。
68. It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
美丽要比善良好，善良要比难看强。
69. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
民主就是指人民用人民的大头棒打击人民。
70. I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.
我喜欢政治晚会，这是唯一人们不谈政治的地方。
