奥斯卡王尔德的经典名言(3)

　　26.To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual什么也不做是世上最难的事情，最困难并且最智慧。

　　27.There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.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。

　　28.Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一。

　　29.Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.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。

　　30.My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.墙纸越来越破，而我越来越老，两者之间总有一个要先消失。——1900年11月30日，于左岸旅店，他的遗言。

　　31.I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.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。

　　32.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.如果男人坚持把她当作一个完全正常的人，女人如何能期望会从他那里获得幸福。

　　33.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。

　　34.Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative谈论天气是无趣人类最后的避难所。

　　35.One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。

　　36.Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.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。