We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

我們都在陰溝里，但仍有人仰望星空。

To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.）

為了贏回我的青春，我什么都愿意做，除了鍛煉、早起、做個對社會有用的人。

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

年輕的時候，我以為錢是人生最重要的，現在我老了，我懂了，確實如此。

The heart was made to be broken.

心是用來碎的。

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

只有膚淺的人才不會以貌取人。

Only the shallow know themselves

只有淺薄的人才了解自己。

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

現如今無用的信息這么少，真是可悲。

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

時尚就是一種丑陋，因為丑得太難容忍，所以我們每半年要換一撥。

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

大多數人都不是自己。他們的思想是別人的意見，他們的生活是在模仿別人的生活，他們的戀愛也只是引述而已。

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

再普通的東西，只要你把它藏起來，它就討人喜歡。

What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.

什么是離婚的主要原因？結婚。

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

做你自己，因為別人都有人做了。

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

人生就是一件蠢事追著另一件蠢事而來，而愛情則是兩個蠢東西追來追去。

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

擺脫誘惑的唯一方法是向誘惑屈服。我能抵御一切——除了誘惑。

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

愛自己是終身浪漫的開始。

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

老時相信一切，中年懷疑一切，青年知道一切。

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

人們給自己犯過的錯誤取名叫做經驗。

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

生活是世上最罕見的事情，大多數人只是存在，僅此而已。

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。

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

永遠寬恕你的敵人，沒有什么能比這個更讓他們惱怒的了。

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

處理好建議的唯一方式就是將它傳下去。好建議對自己是沒有用的。

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

生活的秘訣在于，要好好體嘗被騙得很慘的樂趣。

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

把人分為好壞挺荒謬的。人要不就有魅力，要不就無趣。

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

生活中只有兩個悲劇：一個是沒有得到你想要的，另外一個是得到了你想要的。

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

一個人總是可以善待他毫不在意的人。

Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.

每個人生來都是君王，但大多數在流亡中死去。

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

過自己想要的生活不是自私，要求別人按自己的意愿生活才是。

When gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayer.

若諸神要懲罰我等，必先讓我等如愿以償。

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

比被人談論更糟糕的事只能是不被人談論。

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

我喜歡有未來的男人和有過去的女人。

Men become old, but they never become good.

人們越長越老，但絕不會越變越好。

The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.

愚人創造了這個世界，智者不得不活在其中。

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

情感的好處就是讓我們引入歧途，而科學的好處是不感情用事

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.

墻紙越來越破，而我越來越老，兩者之間總有一個要先消失。