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。
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.

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。

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World (November 1887)

失去一个父母可以看成是一种不幸;失去双亲看上去就像是一种粗心了。

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

就像亲爱的圣芳济一样,我也和贫穷联姻,但我的婚姻并不成功。

Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

真理很纯粹,可决不简单。

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

当神想惩罚我们时,他们就回应我们的祈祷。

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers

我敬佩简单的快乐,那是复杂性最后避难所。

I adore simple pleasures.They are the last refuge of the complex.

女人因为男人的缺点而爱男人;如果男人的缺点足够多,女人什么事都可以原谅他们,哪怕是他们的智力。

Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them women will forgive them everything, even their gigantic intellects.

《生命之书》始于一座花园里的一男一女……它最后以《启示录》告终。

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden…It ends with Revelations.