Don't be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, don't believe them.
不要惧怕过去。如果人们告诉你说过去的事情无可挽回，别相信他们。

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。

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
死亡和庸俗是十九世纪仅有的无法用巧辩逃避的东西。

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
每次人们赞同我的时候，我都觉得自己一定错了。

I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors.
我一点都不浪漫。我还不算太老。还是把浪漫留给比我老的人吧。

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。

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
每个人犯了错误，都自称是经验。

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。

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。

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧：她总在缅怀过去，却必须活在未来。

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
我们教给人们如何记忆，却从来不教他们如何成长。

"If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
如果一个女人不能让她犯的错误变得迷人，她就只是一个雌性动物。
-《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》

"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
大多数男人和女人被强迫扮演他们没有能力扮演的角色。我们的吉尔登斯吞为我们演哈姆雷特，而我们的哈姆雷特必须像霍尔王子一样来说笑。这个世界是个舞台，但角色被分配得很糟糕。
--《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
不够真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
一个人在选择他的敌人时，再小心也不为过。