王爾德經典名言
王爾德經典名言
1.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。
2.Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
社會僅僅以一種精神概念而存在,真實世界中只有個體存在。
3.Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
格言是智慧耐用的替代品。
4.Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
悲觀主義者是這種人:當他可以從兩種罪惡中選擇時,他把兩種都選了。
5.Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
每個圣人都有過去,每個罪人都有未來。
6.My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.
我和我的墻紙即將展開生死決斗,所以我們中的一個必須得走。
7.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。
8.When one is in love, one always begins by deceiveing one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.
愛,始于自我欺騙,終于欺騙他人。這就是所謂的浪漫。
9.No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
偉大的藝術家所看到的,從來都不是世界的本來面目。一旦他看透了,他就不再是藝術家。
10.What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
看似痛苦的試煉的往往是偽裝的祝福。
11.No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
沒有人富有到可以贖回自己的過去。
12.The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
浪漫的精髓就在于它充滿種種可能。
13.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。
14.Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
人是理性動物,但當他被要求按照理性的要求行動時,可又要發(fā)脾氣了。
15.Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
鋼琴上貼著一條告示:請不要槍殺鋼琴師,他已經盡力了。
16.、What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
什么是離婚的主要原因?結婚。
17.To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
愛自己是終身浪漫的開始。
18.The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
公眾驚人地寬容。他們可以原諒一切,除了天才。
19.We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我們都生活在陰溝里,但仍有人仰望星空。
20.Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
不滿是個人或民族邁向進步的第一步。
21.One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
一個人總是可以善待他毫不在意的人。
22.We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
我們愛爾蘭人太詩意以至不能做詩人,我們的國家里充滿才華橫溢的失敗者,可我們是自希臘人以來最偉大的說空話之人。
23.The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
真相很少純粹,也決不簡單。
24.Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
大多數(shù)人發(fā)現(xiàn)他們從未后悔的事情只是他們的錯誤,但發(fā)現(xiàn)時已經太晚了。
25.I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
我給你們講述的是所有你們沒勇氣去犯的罪孽。
26.I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
我喜歡自言自語,因為這樣節(jié)約時間,而且不會有人跟我爭論。
27.I like men who have a future and women who have a past
我喜歡有未來的男人和有過去的女人。
28.To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世上最罕見的事情,大多數(shù)人只是存在,僅此而已。