王尔德妙语

一定要原谅你的敌人。没有事比这更让他们恼怒的了。Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

愤世嫉俗的人就是知道所有东西的价格，但不知道任何东西的价值的人。A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

严肃是浅薄之人的唯一避难所！Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow!

圣人和罪人的唯一不同是：每个圣人都有一个过去，每个罪人都有一个未来。The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

生活是世界上最稀有的事。大多数人仅仅是存在，仅此而已。To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

教育是件好事，但要知道没有哪件真值得懂的事是教得会的。Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

敏感的人就是因为自己有鸡眼，就总踩在别人的脚趾头上的人。A sensitive person is one who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people’s toes.

经历是每一个人给他的错误取的名字。Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

爱国主义是恶人的美德。Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

马甲比真面孔更能说明问题。A mask tells us more than a face.

表哀伤以易于情; 表欢欣以渐于悦. （雨飞译）Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you intensify its ecstasy.

与其用显微镜去放大玫瑰根茎的丑，不如去欣赏玫瑰的美。（雨飞译）It is better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

倘若我们各自都呈现一点丑恶, 便促成了一个要我们自己去承受的地狱世界.（雨飞译）We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

生活是个太重要的话题，实在不能太严肃地讨论。Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

(简介：王尔德（Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900），爱尔兰裔剧作家，唯美主义运动的倡导者，以敏锐、尖刻、幽默著称于世。)