王尔德语录精选

每个人生来都是君王，但大多数在流亡中死去。

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。

Don't be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable,don't believe them.

不要惧怕过去。如果人们告诉你说过去的事情无可挽回，别相信他们。

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

一个思想若称不上危险，那么它就不值得被称作思想。

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

争论是俗不可耐的，因为道德社会里每个人都持完全相同的观点。

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

死亡和庸俗是十九世纪仅有的无法用巧辩逃避的东西。

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

爱国是恶人的美德。

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

每次人们赞同我的时候，我都觉得自己一定错了。

I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors.

我一点都不浪漫。我还不算太老。还是把浪漫留给比我老的人吧。

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

浪漫本性无常。 [待斟酌]

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。

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

每个人犯了错误，都自称是经验。 ——经验是一个人给自己所犯的错误取的名字。

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋，以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次。 ——时装丑陋得完全令人无法容忍，以至于我们必须每6个月就改变它的样式。

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

男人的面孔是他的自传，女人的面容是她的幻想作品。

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。 [待继续润色]

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

我们教给人们如何记忆，却从来不教他们如何成长。

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. -The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)

任何人都可以为一个朋友的不幸感到同情，但一个人需要非常优良的天性来为一个朋友的成功感到高兴。 -《社会主义下人的灵魂》

"If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female." -Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

如果一个女人不能让她犯的错误变得迷人，她就只是一个雌性动物。 -《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》

"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast." -Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

大多数男人和女人被强迫扮演他们没有能力扮演的角色。我们的吉尔登斯吞为我们演哈姆雷特，而我们的哈姆雷特必须像霍尔王子一样来说笑。这个世界是个舞台，但角色被分配得很糟糕。 --《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》 *注：吉尔登斯吞，霍尔王子均为莎士比亚作品中人物

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

不够真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

一个人在选择他的敌人时，再小心也不为过。

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

所有女人都会变得像她们的母亲一样，这是女人的悲剧。但没有男人变得像他们的父亲，这是男人的悲剧。

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

美国是唯一一个直接从野蛮进入颓废、中间没有经过文明阶段的社会。

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

要避免争论，争论总是俗不可耐，而且常常令人信服。

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

只要一个女人看上去比她自己的女儿小十岁，她就一定会心满意足。

Bad artists always admire each other's work.

糟糕的画家总是欣赏彼此的作品。

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。

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

良心和怯懦其实是一回事。

Dammit sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't be always living for pleasure.

该死，先生，结婚是你的职责，你不能总是逍遥快活。

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

民主就是指人民用人民的大头棒打击人民。

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

不要给女人忠告；决不要给女人任何她晚上不能穿戴的东西。

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，但要时刻牢记，没有什么值得知道的事是教得会的。

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

我喜欢政治晚会，这是唯一人们不谈政治的地方。

I am not young enough to know everything.

我还没有年轻到什么都懂的地步。

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I’m saying.

我简直太聪明了，有时连我自己都不知道自己在说什么。

I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication.

我有一个重大发现——如果摄入足量酒精，就会产生各种陶醉的效果。

I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me.

我喜欢对一堵墙说话，世界上只有它不会反驳我。

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

我喜欢演戏。与人生相比，演戏更真实。

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

我经常锻炼。只是昨天我是在床上吃的早饭。

I think that God, in creating Man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

我想，上帝在创造人类时高估了他的能力。

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

我整个早上都在校对自己的一首诗，我去掉了一个逗号。下午我又把它加上去了。