奥斯卡·王尔德(Oscar Wilde,1854年10月16日—1900年11月30日),出生于爱尔兰都柏林,19世纪英国(准确来讲是爱尔兰,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。
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. Afterwriting in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London'smost popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for hisepigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and thecircumstances of his criminal conviction for homosexuality, imprisonment, and early death at age 46. (wiki)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我们生活在阴沟里,但依然有人仰望星空。
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
女人是用来被爱的,不是用来被理解的。
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
做你自己,其他角色都已经有人扮演了。
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
我们看起来似乎痛苦的试炼,往往是伪装起来的好运。
Every Saint has a past, every sinner has a future.
每个圣人都有过去,每个罪人都有未来。
The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
老时相信一切,中年怀疑一切,青年知道一切。
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
经验是我们给错误取的另一个名字。
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
一个思想若称不上危险,那么它就不值得称作思想。
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
我简直太聪明了,有时连我自己都不知道自己在说什么。
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
如今人们对每样东西的价格了如指掌,对它们的价值却一无所知。
Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.
永远别去爱一个把你当一般人对待的人。
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
生命太重,不必当真。
To love oneself is the beginning of life long Romance.
爱自己是终生浪漫史的开始。
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
适度是极其致命的事情。 过度带来的成功无可比拟。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
活着是世上最稀有的事情。 大多数人只是存在而已。
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
一个人胜券在握时,总是应该公平行事。
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
我的品味最简单。 我总是对最好的感到满意。
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
艺术家是美好事物的创造者。
With freedom, books, flowers and the moon who could not be happy?
拥有自由、书、花和月亮,哪个人会不快乐?
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
摆脱诱惑的唯一方法是屈服于诱惑。
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
大多数人都不是自己。 他们的思想是别人的意见,他们的生活是模仿别人的生活,他们的恋爱只是引述。
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。
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
生活的秘诀在于享受被骗得很惨的乐趣。
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
把人分为好坏很荒谬。 人要么有魅力,要么就无趣。
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