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

英国作家、诗人、散文家

Why was I born with such contemporaries

为什么我会和这样同时代的人一块出生呢?

Only the shallow know themselves.

只有浅薄的人才了解自己。

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

艺术并非模仿生活,而是生活在模仿艺术。

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人。

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.

真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。

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

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。

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。

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

悲观主义者是这种人:当他可以从两种罪恶中选择时,他把两种都选了。

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

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。

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

除了感官,什么也不能治灵魂的创痛,同样,感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了。

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。

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

当神想惩罚我们时,他们就回应我们的祈祷。

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。

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

我敬佩简单的快乐,那是复杂性最后避难所。

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

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。

The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.

愚人创造了这个世界,智者不得不活在其中。

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

《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。