王爾德妙語

一定要原諒你的敵人。沒有事比這更讓他們惱怒的了。Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

憤世嫉俗的人就是知道所有東西的價格，但不知道任何東西的價值的人。A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

嚴肅是淺薄之人的唯一避難所！Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow!

聖人和罪人的唯一不同是：每個聖人都有一個過去，每個罪人都有一個未來。The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

生活是世界上最稀有的事。大多數人僅僅是存在，僅此而已。To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

教育是件好事，但要知道沒有哪件真值得懂的事是教得會的。Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

敏感的人就是因為自己有雞眼，就總踩在別人的腳趾頭上的人。A sensitive person is one who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people’s toes.

經曆是每一個人給他的錯誤取的名字。Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

愛國主義是惡人的美德。Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

馬甲比真麵孔更能說明問題。A mask tells us more than a face.

表哀傷以易於情; 表歡欣以漸於悅. （雨飛譯）Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you intensify its ecstasy.

與其用顯微鏡去放大玫瑰根莖的醜，不如去欣賞玫瑰的美。（雨飛譯）It is better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

倘若我們各自都呈現一點醜惡, 便促成了一個要我們自己去承受的地獄世界.（雨飛譯）We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

生活是個太重要的話題，實在不能太嚴肅地討論。Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

(簡介：王爾德（Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900），愛爾蘭裔劇作家，唯美主義運動的倡導者，以敏銳、尖刻、幽默著稱於世。)