1、To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
2、The evolution of man is slow. The injustice to man is great.
3、To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
4、Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
5、适度是极其致命的事情。过度带来的成功是无可比拟的。
6、Only the shallow know themselves.
7、没有比冷静更让人恼火的。
8、Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
9、精选王尔德语录(四)：
10、Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
11、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。
12、只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
13、It is absurd to divide people in to good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.-Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I
14、To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual
15、一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人。
16、男人的面孔是他的自传，女人的面容是她的幻想作品。
17、The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
18、The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
19、I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors.
20、现在每个伟人都有自己的信徒，而他们的传记总由叛徒来写。
21、邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言，用来解释其他人的特殊魅力。
22、当神想惩罚我们时，他们就回应我们的祈祷。
23、看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福。
24、女人再嫁是因为憎恶前夫，男人再娶是因为太爱前妻。
25、爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。
26、Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.-The Sphinx Without a Secret
27、没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。
28、A true friend stabs you in the front.
29、One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
30、女人是用来被爱的，不是用来被理解的。-《没有秘密的斯芬克斯》
31、Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative
32、A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
33、I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
34、A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
35、我想所有迷人的人都是被溺爱的，这是他们吸引力来源的秘密。
36、诗人可以从任何事件中存活，印刷错误除外。
37、什么也不做是世上最难的事情，最困难并且最智慧。
38、艺术并非模仿生活，而是生活在模仿艺术。
39、浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种.种可能。
40、I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.
41、Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
42、我们教给人们如何记忆，却从来不教他们如何成长。
43、The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
44、A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
45、Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
46、精选王尔德语录(三)：
47、Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
48、Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
49、我不想谋生;我想生活。
50、一个好的名声，就像好的意向一样，在很多个举动的形成，在一个举动中失去。
51、我给你们讲述的是所有你们没勇气去犯的罪孽。
52、如果一个女人不能让她犯的错误变得迷人，她就只是一个雌性动物。-《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》
53、女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧：她总在缅怀过去，却必须活在未来。
54、不够真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。
55、Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them
56、Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
57、悲观主义者是这种人：当他可以从两种罪恶中选择时，他把两种都选了。
58、愚人创造了这个世界，智者不得不活在其中。
59、The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.
60、All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction
61、伟大的艺术家所看到的，从来都不是世界的本来面目。一旦他看透了，他就不再是艺术家。
62、Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
63、年的韵事使女人变成一片废墟，20年的婚姻使女人变成一座公共建筑。
64、钢琴上贴着一条告示：请不要枪杀钢琴师，他已经尽力了。
65、Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
66、生活中只有两种悲剧：一个是没有得到我们想要的，另外一个是得到我们想要的。
67、The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
68、人们越长越老，但绝不会越变越好。
69、爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。
70、I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
71、永远宽恕你的敌人，没有什么能比这个更让他们恼怒的了。
72、真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。
73、No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
74、每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。
75、除了我的天才，我没什么好申报的。
76、不要惧怕过去。如果人们告诉你说过去的事情无可挽回，别相信他们。
77、Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
78、Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
79、A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
80、除了感官，什么也不能治灵魂的创痛，同样，感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了。
81、The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
82、Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
83、每个人生来都是君王，但大多数在流亡中死去。
84、Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
85、I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
86、If a woman can’t make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.-Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
87、A good name, like good will, is got by many action and lost by one.
88、What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
89、Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
90、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 Socialism (1881)
91、我喜欢人甚于原则，此外我还喜欢没原则的人甚于世界上的一切。
92、一个人在选择他的敌人时，再小心也不为过。
93、I like men who have a future and women who have a past
94、A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
95、When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
96、I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
97、每次人们赞同我的时候，我都觉得自己一定错了。
98、Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
99、什么是离婚的主要原因?结婚。
100、大多数人发现他们从未后悔的事情只是他们的错误，但发现时已经太晚了。
101、已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。
102、所有女人都会变得像她们的母亲一样，这是女人的悲剧。但没有男人变得像他们的父亲，这是男人的悲剧。
103、Why was I born with such contemporaries
104、每个人犯了错误，都自称是经验。
105、Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
106、Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
107、孩子最初爱他们父母，等大一些他们评判父母;然后有些时候，他们原谅父母。
108、把人分成好的与坏的是荒谬的，人要么迷人，要么乏味。-《温夫人的扇子》
109、我年青时以为金钱至上，而今年事已迈，发现果真如此。
110、The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
111、Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
112、Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
113、Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
114、生活是世上最罕见的事情，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
115、注意穿着打扮是必要的。而拥有生活目标却并非如此。
116、死亡和庸俗是十九世纪仅有的无法用巧辩逃避的东西。
117、All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
118、I have nothing to declare except my genius.
119、Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
120、真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。
121、The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
122、梦想家只能在月光下找到前进的方向，他为此遭受的惩罚是比所有人提前看到曙光。
123、When a woman marries again,it is because she detested her first husband.When a man marries again,it is because he adored his first wife.
124、Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
125、给我们赦免的，是忏悔而不是牧师。
126、What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
127、一个思想若称不上危险，那么它就不值得被称作思想。
128、争论是俗不可耐的，因为道德社会里每个人都持完全相同的观点。
129、Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building.
130、谈论天气是无趣人类最后的避难所。
131、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.
132、教养良好的人处处和他人过不去，头脑聪明的人处处和自己过不去。
133、男人因疲倦而结婚，女人因好奇而结婚;最终他们都会失望。
134、对富有的单身汉应该客以重税。让某些人比其他人更快乐是不公平的。
135、It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution
136、平常的财宝会被偷走，而真正的财富则不会。你灵魂里无限珍贵的东西是无法被夺走的。
137、宗教一旦被证明是正确时就会消亡。科学便是已消亡宗教的记录。
138、坏女人给我麻烦。好女人令我厌烦。这就是她们唯一的不同。
139、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。
140、我喜欢自言自语，因为这样节约时间，而且不会有人跟我争论。
141、社会仅仅以一种精神概念而存在，真实世界中只有个体存在。
142、女人如何能期望会从男人那里获得幸福，如果他坚持把她当作一个完全正常的人。
143、Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
144、时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋，以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次。
145、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。-《社会主义下人的灵魂》
146、不满是个人或民族迈向进步的第一步。
147、An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
148、What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
149、Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
150、We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
151、Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
152、Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
153、奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌。
154、要避免争论，争论总是俗不可耐，而且常常令人信服。
155、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)
156、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.
157、一个愤世嫉俗的人知道所有东西的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值。
158、摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是臣服于诱惑……我能抗拒一切，除了诱惑。
159、Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.
160、How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
161、情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途。
162、人类的进化很缓慢。他们遭受的不公待遇显而易见。
163、We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
164、Men become old, but they never become good.
165、我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人。
166、One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
167、Hatred is blind, as well as love.
168、声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一。
169、We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
170、America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
171、Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
172、绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人。
173、精选王尔德语录：
174、我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。
175、为什么我会和这样同时代的人一块出生呢?
176、Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
177、我和我的墙纸即将展开生死决斗，所以我们中的一个必须得走。
178、When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
179、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。
180、No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
181、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。
182、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 husband.
183、我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。
184、精选王尔德语录(二)：
185、The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
186、公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切，除了天才。
188、The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.
189、The heart was made to be broken.
190、There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
191、Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography
192、世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没有人议论你。
193、我敬佩简单的快乐，那是复杂的最后避难所。
194、格言是智慧耐用的替代品。
195、生活从来不是公平的……而且，或许对我们大多数人来说，这是件好事。
196、Don’t be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, don’t believe them.
197、真朋友才会当面中伤你。
198、My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.
199、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。