王爾德妙語20句
奧斯卡·王爾德是19世紀英國著名的作家、詩人、戲劇家。他的主要作品包括小說 《道林·格雷的畫像》、戲劇《薇拉》、《莎樂美》以及諷刺英國上層社會人際關系冷漠和生活腐敗的《貴在真誠》等。他的文風風趣幽默，在生活中也是一個思維敏捷、妙語連珠的人。臨死前，他還幽默地總結自己一生對戲劇的喜愛：“不是那些幕布被拉開，就是我被死神拉走”。 2007年，英國電視臺(UKTV)在3000名喜劇迷中展開了一項評選，評出了英國歷史上談吐最機智最幽默的人，王爾德位列第一，言辭犀利的鐵腕首相丘吉爾排名第五。
1. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would call a romance.
愛，始于自我欺騙，終于欺騙他人。這就是所謂的浪漫。
2. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
浪漫之妙就在于它充滿種種可能。
3. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
愛自己就是開始延續一生的浪漫。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. The heart was made to be broken.
心是用來碎的。
8. 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，大多數人只是存在，僅此而已。
9. 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。
10. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人議論更糟糕，那就是沒有人議論你。
11. The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
教養良好的人處處和他人過不去，頭腦聰明的人處處和自己過不去。
12. Hatred is blind, as well as love.
恨是盲目的，愛亦然。
13. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
生活中只有兩種悲劇:一個是沒有得到我們想要的，另外一個是得到我們想要的。
14. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
紳士就是從不無心傷害別人感覺的人。
15. Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而結婚，女人因好奇而結婚;最終他們都會失望。
16. I can resist everything except temptation.
除了誘惑，任何事我都能抵擋。
17. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
時尚就是丑陋的一種形式，它如此丑，所以我們必須每六個月改變一次。
18. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
在男女之間不可能有友誼。他們之間有熱情、敵意、崇拜、愛慕，但就是沒有友誼。
19. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
美國是世界上唯一一個直接從野蠻到墮落的國家，而中間沒有經過文明。
20. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter
每一幅畫像都是畫家情感的自我描繪，而非對模特的描繪。
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