Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
正因人生是件太沉重的事，所以就不要那么严肃地谈论它了。
One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
一个人真正的人生常常是他没过上的人生。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
活着是这个世界上极少见的事情。大部分人只是生存罢了。
Life is never fair ... And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
人生从来就不公平，也许对我们中的大多数人而言这是一件好事。
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
雄心是失败最后的庇护所。
The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.
世界是蠢人创造的，聪明人不得不活在其中。
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has never been able to find its way.
人类找不到正确的路，因为根本不知道要去哪儿。
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
世界上有两种悲剧。一种是得不到自己想要的，另一种是得到了。
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.
我们生活在这样的时代，人们因读书太多而缺乏智慧，因思考太多而缺少魅力。
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
人生中顶多只有一次超凡的体验，生活的秘诀在于尽可能多地重复这段经历。
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
世界是一个舞台，可是这出戏的选角实在做得太糟糕了。
Try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.
不管如何努力，我们都无法找到事物背后的真相。而这也许有个可怕的缘故：事物本来就只有表象，没有真相。
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
记忆是每个人随身携带的日记本。
Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
人生的形式实在具有严重的缺陷。人生的灾难始于走错路，遇错人。人生这出喜剧中隐喻着怪异的恐怖，而悲剧演到最**时又似乎常常变成滑稽剧。
The world is simply divided into two classes—those who believe the incredible, like the public—and those who do the improbable.
世界上的人分为两种。第一种相信不可能的事情，第二种做成不可能的事情。
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them.
世界总是嘲笑自己的悲剧，这是承受那些悲剧的唯一方式。
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
不满是个人或国家进步的第一步。
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我们都活在阴沟里，但总有些人仍在仰望星空。
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着另一件蠢事而来，而爱情则是两个蠢东西追来追去。
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
人做彻头彻尾的蠢事时总是源自最为高贵的动机。
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
人能相信绝不可能的事情，却从不肯信不大可能的事情。
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
人总是把善意留给他不在乎的人。
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
把人分为好人和坏人两类是荒谬的，世界上只有迷人的人和乏味的人。
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
对他人分析得越多，就越会失去分析他人的所有理由。或迟或早，我们会撞上那个可怕的、普遍的东西——那个东西叫作人性。
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
大众对一切事情都抱有永不满足的好奇心——除了真正值得知道的事情以外。
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
如今人们只知晓每件东西的价格而不知晓其价值。
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating —people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
有两种人实在迷人：一种是无所不知的人，另一种是一无所知的人。
Good looks are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.
美貌是个圈套。所有明智的人都盼望掉进这个圈套。
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
每个人都是自己的魔鬼，我们把这个世界变成了大家的地狱。
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
一个人可能数年荒废虚度，有朝一日所有际遇纷涌呈现。