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傳，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個真正的悲劇：她總在緬懷過去，卻必須活在未來。
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
我們教給人們如何記憶，卻從來不教他們如何成長。
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
-The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
任何人都能對朋友的不幸感到同情，但要消受一個春風得意的朋友，則需要非常優良的天性。
-《社會主義下人的靈魂》
"If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
如果一個女人不能讓她犯的錯誤變得迷人，她就只是一個雌性動物。
-《亞瑟·薩維爾勳爵的罪行》
"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, andour Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
大多數男人和女人被強迫扮演他們沒有能力扮演的角色。我們的吉爾登斯吞為我們演哈姆雷特，而我們的哈姆雷特必須像霍爾王子一樣來說笑。這個世界是個舞台，但角色被分配得很糟糕。
--《亞瑟·薩維爾勳爵的罪行》
*註：吉爾登斯吞，霍爾王子均為莎士比亞作品中人物
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
不夠真誠是危險的，太真誠則絕對是致命的。
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
一個人在選擇他的敵人時，再小心也不為過。
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
所有女人都會變得像她們的母親一樣，這是女人的悲劇。但沒有男人變得像他們的父親，這是男人的悲劇。
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
美國是唯一一個直接從野蠻進入頹廢、中間沒有經過文明階段的社會。