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奥斯卡王尔德的经典名言
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。
【第1句】: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。
【第2句】: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。
【第3句】: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。
【第4句】: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。
【第5句】: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。
【第6句】: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。
【第7句】: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。
【第8句】: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。
【第9句】: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。
【第10句】: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。
【第11句】:I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.我不想谋生;我想生活。
【第12句】:The heart was made to be broken.心是用来碎的。
【第13句】:"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》
【第14句】: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。
【第15句】: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。
【第16句】: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。
【第17句】: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。
【第18句】:Hatred is blind, as well as love.恨是盲目的,爱亦然。
【第19句】:The very essence of romance is uncertainty.浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。
【第20句】: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。
【第21句】:What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.什么是离婚的主要原因?结婚。
【第22句】:Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.没有比冷静更让人恼火的。
【第23句】:A true friend stabs you in the front.真朋友才会当面中伤你。
【第24句】:I have nothing to declare except my genius.除了我的`天才,我没什么好申报的。
【第25句】: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?
【第26句】: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。
【第27句】: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。
【第28句】:Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一。
【第29句】: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。
【第30句】: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。
【第31句】: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。
【第32句】: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。
【第33句】: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。
【第34句】: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。
【第35句】: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。
【第36句】: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。
【第37句】: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。
【第38句】: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。
【第39句】: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。
【第40句】: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。
【第41句】:Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.格言是智慧耐用的替代品。
【第42句】: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。
【第43句】: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。
【第44句】: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。
【第45句】:Only the shallow know themselves.只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
【第46句】: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。
【第47句】: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。
【第48句】: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。
【第49句】: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》
【第50句】: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。
【第51句】: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》
【第52句】: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。
【第53句】: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。
【第54句】: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。
【第55句】: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。
【第56句】: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。
【第57句】: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。
【第58句】: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。
【第59句】: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。
【第60句】: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。
【第61句】: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。
【第62句】:Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌。