作者简介(来自百度百科):
奥斯卡·王尔德(Oscar Wilde,1854年10月16日-1900年11月30日),爱尔兰作家、诗人、剧作家,英国唯美主义艺术运动的倡导者。他的作品在剧院演出后得到广大回响,在19世纪与萧伯纳齐名。王尔德富有过人的自信和天赋,虽然他的晚年极为潦倒,但他的艺术成就仍使他成为世界经典的艺术家。他创作了9篇童话。结集为《快乐王子和其他故事》和《石榴屋》两部童话集。1895年5月25日,英国作家奥斯卡·王尔德因为“与其他男性发生不道德的行为”而被判处两年徒刑。1900年王尔德因脑膜炎于巴黎的旅馆去世,终年46岁。
以下为其怼的金句(来源于南京先锋书店,侵删):
怼人
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。
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。
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。
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
过自己想要的生活不是自私,要求别人按自己的意愿生活才是。
怼时尚
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。
怼生活
I don not want to earn my living .I want to live.
我不想谋生,我想生活。
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。
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。
To live is the rarest thing in the world, most people exist, that is all.
生活是世上最罕见的事情,大多数人只是存在,仅此而已。
怼社会
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。
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
邪恶是好人发明出来说明那些奇异而有魅力的人的神话。
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
我们教给人们如何记忆,却从来不教他们如何成长。
怼群众
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
为什么我会和这样一些人生活在同一个时代?
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。
怼爱情
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。
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
当爱情走到尽头,软弱者哭个不停,有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标,而聪明的早就预备了下一个。
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.
爱,始于自我欺骗,终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
恨是盲目的,爱亦然。
怼婚姻
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而结婚,女人因好奇而结婚;最终他们都会失望。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
结婚是想象战胜了理智,再婚是希望战胜了经验。
What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
什么是离婚的主要原因?结婚。
怼女人
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
一个人决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。
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。
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。
怼男人
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
已婚男人的快乐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。
怼人性
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。
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。
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 can resist everything except temptation.
除了诱惑之外,我可以抵抗任何事物。
There are only two tragedies in life:one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
世上只有两种悲剧:有些人总是不能遂愿,而有些人总是心想事成。
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
一个愤世嫉俗的人知道所有东西的价格,不知道任何东西的价值。
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。
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。