奧斯卡王爾德是英國19世紀維多利亞時代最偉大的作家和藝術家之一,是提倡“為藝術而藝術”的美學代言人,他留下的小說、戲劇、童話和詩歌都成為后世的經典。
他的語錄句句反雞湯,針針見血。要問毒哥偶像是誰,在文學方面,我就服他。
下面,安利一些我非常喜歡的句子,雙語教學,可以拿去裝B。
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 difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
逢場作戲和終身不渝之間的區別只在于逢場作戲稍微長一些。
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
愛,始于自我欺騙,終于欺騙他人。這就是所謂的浪漫。
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
當愛情走到盡頭,軟弱者哭個不停,有效率的馬上去尋找下一個目標,而聰明的早就預備了下一個。
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
男女之間不可能存在友誼,有的只是愛恨情仇。
The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect-simply a confession of failure.
一生只愛一次的人是膚淺的,他們把那叫做忠貞不渝,我卻叫做習慣性懶惰或是缺乏想象力。情感生活的忠貞不渝就如同智力生活的一成不變一樣,簡直是承認失敗。
The heart was made to be broken.
心是用來碎的。
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
情感的好處就是讓我們誤入歧途。
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
個性善良不如長相美麗,不過個性善良總比生得丑好。
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
只有淺薄的人才不以貌取人。世界真正的神秘性在于可見之物,而不在于看不見的東西。
What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
什么是離婚的主要原因?結婚。
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而結婚,女人因好奇而結婚;最終他們都會失望。
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
已婚者的快樂來自那些他沒有娶的人。
Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.
壞女人給我麻煩。好女人令我厭煩。這就是她們唯一的不同。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
結婚是想象戰勝了理智,再婚是希望戰勝了經驗。
Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
大多數人發現他們從未后悔的事情只是他們的錯誤,但發現時已經太晚了。
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
除了感官,什么也不能治靈魂的創痛,同樣,感官的饑渴也只有靈魂解除得了。
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
邪惡是善良的人們編造的謊言,用來解釋其他人的特殊魅力。
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方式是臣服于誘惑……我能抗拒一切,除了誘惑。
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
適度是極其致命的事情。過度帶來的成功是無可比擬的。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人議論更糟糕,那就是沒有人議論你。
"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
生活從來不是公平的……而且,或許對我們大多數人來說,這是件好事。
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
一個極其優秀的人。他沒有敵人,而他的朋友也沒有一個喜歡他的。
Time is a waste of money.
時間即是浪費金錢。
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
人生的首要責任是盡量虛偽。至于第二責任是什么,至今尚無人發現。
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
享樂是人們活著的唯一目標。什么也沒幸福短暫。
There is a fatality about all good resolutions. They are invariably made too soon.
所有好的決定都有其致命的弱點,那就是都決定得太匆忙。
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
我們這個時代的人,讀書太多所以不再聰慧,思考太多所以不再美麗。
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
沒有比冷靜更讓人惱火的。
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual
什么也不做是世上最難的事情,最困難并且最智慧。
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
真實生活就通常就是我們無法掌控的生活。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
經驗是一個人給自己所犯的錯誤取的名字。
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
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。
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
良心和怯懦其實是一回事。
Men become old, but they never become good.
人們越長越老,但絕不會越變越好。
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
愛國是惡人的美德。
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
樂觀的基礎完全是恐懼。
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
對于忠告,你所能做的,就是把它奉送給別人,忠告從來就不是給自己準備的。
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
年輕人想有信仰,但他們卻沒有;老年人不想有信仰,但卻辦不到。
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
雄心壯志是失敗最后的避難所。
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?。核傇诰拺堰^去,卻必須活在未來。
A women will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
女人可以跟任何人調情,只要有旁人看見。
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
生活中只有兩種悲劇:一個是沒有得到我們想要的,另外一個是得到我們想要的。
When I was young , I used to think that money was the most important thing in life , now that I am old , I know it is.
我年青時以為金錢至上,而今年事已邁,發現果真如此。
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