我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人,我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者,可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。
奥斯卡·王尔德

英国作家、诗人、散文家

我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人,我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者,可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

爱国是恶人的美德。

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福。

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

雄心壮志是失败最后的避难所。

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

我想,上帝在创造人类时高估了他的能力。

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

诗人可以拯救一切除了印刷错误。

A poet can service everything but a misprint.

演出相当成功,但观众则是一场灾难。

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

我和我的墙纸即将展开生死决斗,所以我们中的一个必须得走。

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.

良心和怯懦其实是一回事。

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.