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奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde，1854~1900），19世纪出生在英国（准确来讲是爱尔兰，但是当时由英国统治。）最伟大的作家与艺术家之一，以其剧作、诗歌、童话和小说闻名。唯美主义代表人物，19世纪80年代美学运动的主力和90年代颓废派运动的先驱。
『神是奇怪的。他们不但借助我们的恶来惩罚我们，也利用我们内心的美好、善良、慈悲、关爱，来毁灭我们。』王尔德的一生成为了这句话的注脚。他留下的童话、长篇小说等至今让读者爱不释手。此外，广为流传的还有他的毒舌。今天我们就一起来欣赏一下：
The heart was made to be broken.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Only the shallow know themselves
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. 现如今无用的信息这么少，真是可悲。
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. 时尚就是一种丑陋，因为丑得太难容忍，所以我们每半年要换一拨。
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. 大多数人都不是自己。他们的思想是别人的意见，他们的生活是在模仿别人的生活，他们的恋爱也只是引述而已。
The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it. 再普通的东西，只要你把它藏起来，它就讨人喜欢。
What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. 老时相信一切，中年怀疑一切，青年知道一切。
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. 人们给自己犯过的错误取名叫做经验。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. 不够真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。 Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. 处理好建议的唯一方式就是将它传下去。好建议对自己是没有用的。
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. 生活的秘诀在于，要好好体尝被骗得很惨的乐趣。
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. 把人分为好坏挺荒谬的。人要不就有魅力，要不就无趣。
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. 一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人。
Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. 比被人谈论更糟糕的事只能是不被人谈论。
I like men who have a future and women who have a past
Men become old, but they never become good.
愚人创造了这个世界，智者不得不活在其中。
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. 情感的好处就是让我们引入歧途，而科学的好处是不感情用事
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go. ——1900年11月30日，于左岸旅店，他的遗言。
（文章来自公众号“微英语”） |
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