To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
爱自己是浪漫终身的开始。
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
爱情始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。我们的世界就把这个叫作恋爱。
But love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.
可爱情如今已经不时髦了——被诗人给毁了。他们写了太多关于爱情的文字，搞得再没人肯信它。这我不觉得奇怪。真爱是痛苦的，而且是沉默的。
Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the poor.
爱情是有钱人的特权，穷人可不能靠它活下去。
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct about things: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
男人总想成为女人的初恋——这是一种笨拙的虚荣心。而女人的天性则更精妙：她们总想成为男人的最后一任恋人。
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
人应该一直活在爱情中，正因如此人绝不应该结婚。
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
男人和任何女人在一起都会快乐——只要他不爱那个女人。
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
浪漫的精髓在于它充满种种可能性。
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word too.
永远！多可怕的字眼。我听到这个词便会发抖。女人总喜欢用这个词，总喜欢用永远来破坏每一段爱情。永远是个毫无意义的字眼。
Some cause happiness whenever they go, others whenever they go.
有的人走到哪都能带来快乐，有的人只有走了才能给人带来快乐。
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而结婚，女人因为好奇而结婚。结果双方都很失望。
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
婚姻唯一美妙的地方是让双方都得靠欺瞒哄骗过日子。
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
婚姻的基础恰恰就是双方之间的相互误解。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
结婚是想象战胜了理智，再婚是希望战胜了经验。
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.
大部分男男女女都在命运胁迫下出演各类自己并不胜任的角色。