奥斯卡·王尔德经典名言
<p>奥斯卡·王尔德(Oscar Wilde，1854~1900)，19世纪出生在英国(准确来讲是爱尔兰，但是当时由英国统治。)最伟大的作家与艺术家之一，以其剧作、诗歌、童话和小说闻名。唯美主义代表人物，19世纪80年代美学运动的主力和90年代颓废派运动的先驱。</p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p> </p><p>1.Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.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。</p><p>2.What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福。</p><p>3.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。</p><p>4.One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人。</p><p>5.The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.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。</p><p>6.Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.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。</p><p>7.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。</p><p>8.Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them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。</p><p>9.A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人。</p><p>10.The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.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。</p><p>11.I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.我不想谋生;我想生活。</p><p>12.The heart was made to be broken.心是用来碎的。</p><p>13."Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."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。《一个理想的丈夫》</p><p>14.Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.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。</p><p>15.What is a cynic? 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，却不知道任何东西的价值。</p><p>16.The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些。</p><p>17.Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation不满是个人或民族迈向进步的第一步。</p><p>18.Hatred is blind, as well as love.恨是盲目的，爱亦然。</p><p>19.The very essence of romance is uncertainty.浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。</p><p>20.Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.永远宽恕你的敌人，没有什么能比这个更让他们恼怒的了。</p><p>21.What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.什么是离婚的主要原因?结婚。</p><p>22.Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.没有比冷静更让人恼火的。</p><p>23.A true friend stabs you in the front.真朋友才会当面中伤你。</p><p>24.I have nothing to declare except my genius.除了我的天才，我没什么好申报的。</p><p>25.Why was I born with such contemporaries为什么我会和这样同时代的人一块出生呢?</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>28.Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一。</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>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。</p><p>37.Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.Personal Impressions of America (Leadville) (1883)钢琴上贴着一条告示：请不要枪杀钢琴师，他已经尽力了。</p><p>38.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。</p><p>39.A poet can survive everything but a misprint.诗人可以从任何事件中存活，印刷错误除外。</p><p>40.Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.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。</p><p>41.Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.格言是智慧耐用的替代品。</p><p>42.Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.注意穿着打扮是必要的。而拥有生活目标却并非如此。</p><p>43.Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.适度是极其致命的事情。过度带来的成功是无可比拟的。</p><p>44.Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。</p><p>45.Only the shallow know themselves.只有浅薄的人才了解自己。</p><p>46.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.爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。</p><p>47.No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。</p><p>48.No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.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。</p><p>49.The truth is rarely pure and never simple.——The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。——《不可儿嬉》</p><p>50.All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction我想所有迷人的人都是被宠爱着的，这是他们吸引力来源的秘密。</p><p>51.When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers当神想惩罚我们时，他们就回应我们的祈祷。《一个理想的丈夫》</p><p>52.It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution给我们赦免的，是忏悔而不是牧师。</p><p>53.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.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。</p><p>54.We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。</p><p>55.I like men who have a future and women who have a past我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人。</p><p>56.Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others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。</p><p>57.The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没有人议论你。</p><p>58.To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.爱自己就是开始延续一生的罗曼史。</p><p>59.The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途。</p><p>60.I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.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。</p><p>61.I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.我给你们讲述的是所有你们没勇气去犯的罪孽。</p><p>62.Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌。</p>
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