他面色苍白，有月亮一样的脸庞，

也像月亮一样，有浅色的大雀斑。

我年轻时以为钱是世界上最重要的东西，

等到老了才知道……

还真是！！！

说这话的不是别人，正是英国著名唯美主义作家王尔德。

在短短46年的人生中，王尔德写出了众多日后闻名世界的作品：童话《快乐王子》《夜莺与玫瑰》，小说《道雷·格林的画像》，戏剧《莎乐美》……

在这些作品里，各种妙趣横生、逼格爆棚、毫无预兆被扎心的金句几乎比比皆是，王尔德堪称名副其实的“腐国毒舌代言人”。

王尔德语录

我就是我，不一样的烟火

我不想去天堂，我的朋友都不在那里。I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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。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.

世界上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没人议论你。The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

一个思想若称不上危险，那么它就不值得被称作思想。
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

我喜欢活人甚于原则，而这世上最叫我喜欢的，就是无原则的、放荡不羁的人。I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with on principles better than anything else in the world.

我一点都不浪漫。我还不算太老。还是把浪漫留给比我老的人吧。I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors. 

我简直太聪明了，有时连我自己都不知道自己在说什么。I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I’m saying.

我喜欢对一堵墙说话，世界上只有它不会反驳我。I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me. 

我不想谋生，我想生活。I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

一些“相当成熟”的小建议

做你自己,因为别人都有人做了。Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

要原谅你的敌人，没有什么事比这更让他们抓狂的了。Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

借钱就要向悲观主义者借，因为他们不会期待你还钱。Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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。The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. I can resist anything but temptation.

当爱情走到尽头，弱者哭泣，能者另觅，而智者，早就预备好了下一个。When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and wise already had one in reserve.

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。The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

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万事皆可嘲：一个专业毒舌的自我修养

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男人的脸是自传，女人的脸是小说 。A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

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。Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切，除了天才。The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

纨绔子弟是这样的人——知道所有东西的价格，但对“价值”，一无所知。A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

人是理性动物，但当他被要求按照理性的要求行动时，可又要发脾气了。Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

经验是一个人给自己所犯的错误取的名字。Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. 

离婚的主要原因是什么？结婚。
What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.

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。Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

结婚是想象战胜了理智，再婚是希望战胜了经验。Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

已婚男人的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

应该向那些富有的单身汉征更高的税。他们比其他人都快乐，这不公平。Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。When one is in love, one always begins by deceiveing one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.

心就是用来碎的。The heart was made to broken.

真心，稍许一点就很危险，大剂量使用则必死无疑。A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

敌人造成的困难很容易忍受，朋友取得的成功却让人难以忍受。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.

人的一生中有两大悲剧：一种是没得到自己想要的东西，另一种是，得到了。There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

一个人总可以善待他毫不在乎的人。One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

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。Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

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。（被偏爱的有恃无恐。）All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

用好坏来群分人是愚蠢荒谬的。人只有两种:迷人，或者乏味。It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

美丽要比善良好，善良要比难看强。It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. 

每个圣人都有不可告人的过去，每个罪人都有洁白无瑕的未来。Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

生活永远不公平，但这也许比绝对公平好得多。Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.“生活”是个稀罕玩意儿，大部分人只是“存在”在这世上，如此而已。

每个伟人现今都有他的信徒，而传记总由叛徒来写。Every great man nowadays has his disciples,and it is always Judas who write the biography.

引用是智慧的快捷键。Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

一旦真相大白，宗教即刻毙命。科学是宗教的墓志铭。Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

艺术并非模仿生活，而是生活在模仿艺术。Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. 

我敬佩简单的快乐，那是复杂的最后避难所。I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. 

我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

 

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