Wilde's quotations in Chinese and English

Wilde’s quotations in Chinese and English

1. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Talking about the weather is the last refuge of boring humanity.

2. One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. Real life is usually a life that we cannot control.

3. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. Evil is a lie concocted by good people to explain the special charisma of other people.

4. Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. Now every great man has his followers, and their biographies are always written by traitors.

5. The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it. Fools have created this world, and wise men have to live in it.

6. Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed. Men marry because they are tired, women marry because they are curious; both are disappointed in the end. (Article reading website: sanwen.net)

7. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. The happiness of a married man comes from those people he has not married.

8. Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building. A 20-year affair turns a woman into a ruin, and a 20-year marriage turns a woman into a public building.

9. When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first hu *** and. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. A woman marries again because she detests her first husband. A man marries again because he loves his ex-wife too much.

10. Men bee old, but they never bee good. People get older, but they never get better.

11. The evolution of man is slow, The injustice to man is great. The evolution of human beings is slow. The injustice they suffered was obvious.

12. Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It's unfair to make some people happier than others.

13. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

14. I adore simple pleasures, They are the last refuge of the plex.

15. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Apart from the senses, nothing can cure the pain of the soul. Similarly, the hunger and thirst of the senses can only be relieved by the soul. Come on.

16. A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. lose.

17. It is absurd to divide people in to good and bad, People are either charming or tedious. -Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I It is absurd to divide people into good and bad, People are either charming or tedious. Either charming or boring. - "Mrs. Wen's Fan"

　18. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. -The Sphinx Without a Secret. Women are meant to be loved, not understood. - "The Sphinx without Secrets"

　19. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. Art does not imitate life, but life imitates art.

20. Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.

21. 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. Mai, I found that this is indeed the case.

22. Don’t be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, don’t believe them. Don’t be afraid of the past. If people tell you that the past is irreversible, don't believe them.

23. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

24. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Arguments are extremely vulgar, because everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

　25. Death and vulgarity are the only facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Death and vulgarity are the only facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

26. Patrioti *** is the virtue of the vicious. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

27. Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.

28. I am not at all romantic, I am not old enough, I leave romance to my seniors. I am not romantic at all. I'm not too old yet. I'd better leave romance to people older than me.

　29. Wicked women bother one, Good women bore one, That is the only difference beeen them. Wicked women bother me. Nice women bore me. That's their only difference.

30. Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes and calls themselves experience.

　31. And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I , Woman's World (November 1887) Fashion is so unbearably ugly that we have to change it every six months.

　32. A man’s face is his autobiography, A woman’s face is her work of fiction. A man’s face is his autobiography, and a woman’s face is her work of fiction.

　33. There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life, The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her hu *** and. There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. : She is always remembering the past, but she must live in the future.

34. We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. We teach people how to remember, but we never teach them how to grow.

35. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. -The Soul of Man under Sociali *** (1881) It takes a very good nature to sympathize with a friend's misfortune, but to tolerate a friend who is happy and happy.

- "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"