王爾德 (Oscar Wilde) 的名言

01. 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.
當我年輕時我曾以為金錢是生命中最重要的東西。現在我老了，我發現那是真的。

02. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我們都在陰溝里，但仍有人仰望星空。

03. Only the shallow know themselves.
只有淺薄的人才了解自己。

04. A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
一個詩人什麼都可以容忍，印刷錯誤除外。

05. Bad artists always admire each other's work.
糟糕的畫家總是欣賞彼此的作品。

06. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是一件可敬的事，但要時刻牢記，沒有什麼值得知道的事是教得會的。

07. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
時裝醜陋得完全令人無法容忍，以至於我們必須每6個月就改變它的樣式。

08. I can resist everything except temptation.
我可以抗拒一切，誘惑除外。

09. I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication.
我有一個重大發現——如果攝入足量酒精，就會產生各種陶醉的效果。

10. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
世界上只有兩種悲劇，一種是一個人沒有得到他想要的，另一種是他得到了。

11. It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear.
來自敵人的困難可以忍，來自朋友的成功則無可忍。

12. 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。

13. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
結婚是想像戰勝了理智，再婚是希望戰勝了經驗。

14. One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
一個人決不應該相信說出自己真實年齡的女人。如果她把這都說出來了，那她什麼都會說。

15. Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
請別開槍打死那個鋼琴師，他已經盡力了。

16. Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that when I ask for a watercress sandwich I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
請轉告我對這家飯店廚師的讚譽，這是全世界最糟糕的三明治了，還有，我點的是豆瓣菜三明治，我並不是要麵包片中夾一塊菜田。

17. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
樂觀的基礎完全是恐懼。

18. The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
報紙和文學的區別是，報紙沒法讀，而文學則沒人讀。

19. The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint
has a past while every sinner has a future.
聖人和罪人的唯一區別是，每一個聖人都有過去，而每一個罪人都有未來。

20. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方法是屈服於它。

21. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
公眾極其寬容，他們可以寬容一切，天才除外。

22. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
世界上只有一件比被人談論更糟糕的事，那就是沒人談論你。

23. Time is a waste of money.
時間是一種對金錢的浪費。

24. To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
失去一個父母可以看成是一種不幸；失去雙親看上去就像是一種粗心了。

25. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
所有糟糕的詩歌都源於真情實感。

26. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
每當人們贊同我時，我總希望自己一定是錯了。

作者 kulin (? ) 看板 wisdom
標題 [言語] 王爾德選
時間 Wed Nov 24 00:20:01 2010
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摘錄幾篇特別喜歡的王爾德格言:

1.I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
我敬佩簡單的快樂，那是複雜的最後避難所

2.To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
愛自己就是開始終其一生的羅曼史。

3.The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
樂觀的基礎完全是恐懼。

4.The heart was made to be broken.
心是用來碎的

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5.A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
夢想家只能在月光下找到前進的方向，他為此遭受的懲罰是比所有人提前看到曙光。

6.I like persons better than principles,and I like persons
with no principles better than anything else in the world.
我喜歡人甚於原則，我還喜歡沒有原則的人勝於全世界。

7.It is characteristic of all deep human problems that
they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
所有人類的重大問題都有一個共同點：沒有點幽默和瘋狂是沒辦法解決的。

8.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
(節制是不幸的，適量就像頓普通的飯菜那麼糟糕，過度才像一席盛宴那麼盡興)

9.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

10.Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember
from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是一件可敬的事，但要牢記，沒有什麼真正值得知道的事是教得會的

11. 好人會激怒人的理性，壞人則引發人的想像力。