奥斯卡王尔德是英国19世纪维多利亚时代最伟大的作家和艺术家之一,是提倡“为艺术而艺术”的美学代言人,他留下的小说、戏剧、童话和诗歌都成为后世的经典。
他的语录句句反鸡汤,针针见血。要问毒哥偶像是谁,在文学方面,我就服他。
下面,安利一些我非常喜欢的句子,双语教学,可以拿去装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着另一件蠢事而来,而爱情则是两个蠢东西追来追去。
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些。
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.
爱,始于自我欺骗,终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
当爱情走到尽头,软弱者哭个不停,有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标,而聪明的早就预备了下一个。
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
男女之间不可能存在友谊,有的只是爱恨情仇。
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.
一生只爱一次的人是肤浅的,他们把那叫做忠贞不渝,我却叫做习惯性懒惰或是缺乏想象力。情感生活的忠贞不渝就如同智力生活的一成不变一样,简直是承认失败。
The heart was made to be broken.
心是用来碎的。
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途。
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
个性善良不如长相美丽,不过个性善良总比生得丑好。
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
只有浅薄的人才不以貌取人。世界真正的神秘性在于可见之物,而不在于看不见的东西。
What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
什么是离婚的主要原因?结婚。
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而结婚,女人因好奇而结婚;最终他们都会失望。
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。
Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.
坏女人给我麻烦。好女人令我厌烦。这就是她们唯一的不同。
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 people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
大多数人发现他们从未后悔的事情只是他们的错误,但发现时已经太晚了。
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
除了感官,什么也不能治灵魂的创痛,同样,感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了。
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言,用来解释其他人的特殊魅力。
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是臣服于诱惑……我能抗拒一切,除了诱惑。
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
适度是极其致命的事情。过度带来的成功是无可比拟的。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕,那就是没有人议论你。
"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
生活从来不是公平的……而且,或许对我们大多数人来说,这是件好事。
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
一个极其优秀的人。他没有敌人,而他的朋友也没有一个喜欢他的。
Time is a waste of money.
时间即是浪费金钱。
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
人生的首要责任是尽量虚伪。至于第二责任是什么,至今尚无人发现。
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
享乐是人们活着的唯一目标。什么也没幸福短暂。
There is a fatality about all good resolutions. They are invariably made too soon.
所有好的决定都有其致命的弱点,那就是都决定得太匆忙。
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
我们这个时代的人,读书太多所以不再聪慧,思考太多所以不再美丽。
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
没有比冷静更让人恼火的。
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难的事情,最困难并且最智慧。
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
经验是一个人给自己所犯的错误取的名字。
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
任何人都能对朋友的不幸感到同情,但要消受一个春风得意的朋友,则需要非常优良的天性。
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
良心和怯懦其实是一回事。
Men become old, but they never become good.
人们越长越老,但绝不会越变越好。
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
爱国是恶人的美德。
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
乐观的基础完全是恐惧。
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
对于忠告,你所能做的,就是把它奉送给别人,忠告从来就不是给自己准备的。
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
年轻人想有信仰,但他们却没有;老年人不想有信仰,但却办不到。
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
雄心壮志是失败最后的避难所。
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个真正的悲剧:她总在缅怀过去,却必须活在未来。
A women will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
女人可以跟任何人调情,只要有旁人看见。
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
生活中只有两种悲剧:一个是没有得到我们想要的,另外一个是得到我们想要的。
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.
我年青时以为金钱至上,而今年事已迈,发现果真如此。
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