Poison Sharp Sayings from Oscar Wild奥斯卡·王尔德的毒舌语录Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.要原谅你的敌人，没有什么事比这更让他们抓狂的了。
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.我不想去天堂，我的朋友都不在那里。
Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.努力不过是无事可做的人的避难所。
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.只有无聊的人才会把早餐吃出花样来。
Only the shallow know themselves.只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
Bad artists always admire each other’s work.糟糕的画家总是欣赏彼此的作品。
An excellent man, he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. 一个优秀的人没有敌人，但他的朋友也没有一个喜欢他。
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.借钱要向悲观主义者借，因为他们不会期待你还钱。
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.对于建议，你所能做的，就是把它转送给别人，建议从来就不是给自己准备的。
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.时尚总是丑得难以容忍，所以每隔六个月我们都只好改一次。
When I was young, I used to think that money was the most important thing in life, now that I am old, I know it is.我年轻时以为金钱是世界上最重要的东西，等到老了才知道，原来真的是这样。
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.美国是唯一一个直接从野蛮进入颓废、中间没有经过文明阶段的社会。
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.我们爱尔兰人太诗意以致不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满了才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最会说空话的民族Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Why was I born with such contemporaries?死亡和庸俗是十九世纪仅有的无法用巧辩逃避的东西。
为什么我会和这样一些人生活在同一时代。
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.公众惊人地宽容。
他们可以原谅一切，除了天才。
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.每次人们赞同我的时候，我都觉得自己一定错了。
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.人生就是一件蠢事追着另一件蠢事而来，而爱情则是两个蠢东西追来追去。
What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.离婚的主要原因是什么？结婚。
结婚是想象战胜理智，再婚是希望战胜了经验。
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.已婚男人的快乐来自来自那些他没有娶的人。
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. 男人的脸是自传，女人的脸是小说。
Don’t give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can’t wear in the evening.不要给女人忠告；你不能给女人任何她晚上不能穿的东西。
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.女人是用来被爱的，不是用来理解的。
If a woman can’t make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.如果一个女人不能把自己的错误变得迷人，那她就只是一个雌性动物。
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.一个人绝不应该相信说出自己真实年龄的女人。
如果她把这都说出来了，那她什么都会说。
Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.三十五岁是一个非常有吸引力的年龄；伦敦社交圈内满是这样好多年一直保持三十五岁的女人，她们可以自由地挑来选去。
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. I can resist anything but temptation.摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是服从它。
除了诱惑，我可以抵抗任何东西。
It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one’s enemies. It is the successes of one’s friends that are hard to bear.敌人造成的困难很容易忍受，朋友取得的成功却让人很难忍受。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.世界上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没人议论你。
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.人生的悲剧只有两种：一种是没有得到自己想要的东西，另一种是得到自己想要的东西。
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.一个人总是可以善待他毫不在乎的人。
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.任何人都能对朋友的不幸感到同情，但要消受一个春风得意的朋友，则需要非常优良的天性。
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.我喜欢看戏。
与人生相比，戏剧更加真实。
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. 我想所有迷人的人都是被宠爱着的，这是他们魅力来源的秘密。
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.一个思想若称不上危险，那么它就不值得称作思想。
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at stars.我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. 格言是智慧耐用的替代品。
