奧斯卡王爾德的經典名言

奧斯卡·王爾德(Oscar Wilde，1854~1900)，19世紀出生在英國(準確來講是愛爾蘭，但是當時由英國統治。)最偉大的作家與藝術家之一，以其劇作、詩歌、童話和小說聞名。唯美主義代表人物，19世紀80年代美學運動的主力和90年代頹廢派運動的先驅。

【第1句】：Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.大多數人發現他們從未后悔的事情只是他們的錯誤，但發現時已經太晚了。

【第2句】：What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise看似痛苦的試煉的往往是偽裝的祝福。

【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.當愛情走到盡頭，軟弱者哭個不停，有效率的馬上去尋找下一個目標，而聰明的早就預備了下一個。

【第4句】：One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.一個人總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.教養良好的人處處和他人過不去，頭腦聰明的人處處和自己過不去。

【第6句】：Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.社會僅僅以一種精神概念而存在，真實世界中只有個體存在。

【第7句】：To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.生活是世上最罕見的事情，大多數人只是存在，僅此而已。

【第8句】：Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them孩子最初愛他們父母，等大一些他們評判父母;然后有些時候，他們原諒父母。

【第9句】：A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.紳士就是從不無心傷害別人感覺的人。

【第10句】：The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.擺脫誘惑的唯一方式是臣服于誘惑……我能抗拒一切，除了誘惑。

【第11句】：I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.我不想謀生;我想生活。

【第12句】：The heart was made to be broken.心是用來碎的。

【第13句】："Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."生活從來不是公平的……而且，或許對我們大多數人來說，這是件好事。《一個理想的丈夫》

【第14句】：Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.平常的財寶會被偷走，而真正的財富則不會。你靈魂里無限珍貴的東西是無法被奪走的。

【第15句】：What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing一個憤世嫉俗的人知道所有東西的價格，卻不知道任何東西的價值。

【第16句】：The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.逢場作戲和終身不渝之間的區別只在于逢場作戲稍微長一些。

【第17句】：Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation不滿是個人或民族邁向進步的第一步。

【第18句】：Hatred is blind, as well as love.恨是盲目的，愛亦然。

【第19句】：The very essence of romance is uncertainty.浪漫的精髓就在于它充滿種種可能。

【第20句】：Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.永遠寬恕你的敵人，沒有什么能比這個更讓他們惱怒的了。

【第21句】：What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.什么是離婚的主要原因?結婚。

【第22句】：Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.沒有比冷靜更讓人惱火的。

【第23句】：A true friend stabs you in the front.真朋友才會當面中傷你。

【第24句】：I have nothing to declare except my genius.除了我的`天才，我沒什么好申報的。

【第25句】：Why was I born with such contemporaries為什么我會和這樣同時代的人一塊出生呢?

【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難的事情，最困難并且最智慧。

【第27句】：There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.生活中只有兩種悲劇:一個是沒有得到我們想要的，另外一個是得到我們想要的。

【第28句】：Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.聲望是我從未經受的侮辱之一。

【第29句】：Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.宗教一旦被證明是正確時就會消亡。科學便是已消亡宗教的記錄。

【第30句】：My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.墻紙越來越破，而我越來越老，兩者之間總有一個要先消失。——1900年11月30日，于左岸旅店，他的遺言。

【第31句】：I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.我喜歡人甚于原則，此外我還喜歡沒原則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.如果男人堅持把她當作一個完全正常的人，女人如何能期望會從他那里獲得幸福。

【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.我們愛爾蘭人太詩意以至不能做詩人，我們的國家里充滿才華橫溢的失敗者，可我們是自希臘人以來最偉大的說空話之人。

【第34句】：Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative談論天氣是無趣人類最后的避難所。

【第35句】：One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.真實生活就通常就是我們無法掌控的生活。

【第36句】：Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.悲觀主義者是這種人：當他可以從兩種罪惡中選擇時，他把兩種都選了。

【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)鋼琴上貼著一條告示：請不要槍殺鋼琴師，他已經盡力了。

【第38句】：The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.公眾驚人地寬容。他們可以原諒一切，除了天才。

【第39句】：A poet can survive everything but a misprint.詩人可以從任何事件中存活，印刷錯誤除外。

【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.人是理性動物，但當他被要求按照理性的要求行動時，可又要發脾氣了。

【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.注意穿著打扮是必要的。而擁有生活目標卻并非如此。

【第43句】：Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.適度是極其致命的事情。過度帶來的成功是無可比擬的。

【第44句】：Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.每個圣人都有過去，每個罪人都有未來。

【第45句】：Only the shallow know themselves.只有淺薄的人才了解自己。

【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.愛，始于自我欺騙，終于欺騙他人。這就是所謂的浪漫。

【第47句】：No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.沒有人富有到可以贖回自己的過去。

【第48句】：No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.偉大的藝術家所看到的，從來都不是世界的本來面目。一旦他看透了，他就不再是藝術家。

【第49句】：The truth is rarely pure and never simple.——The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)真相很少純粹，也決不簡單。——《不可兒嬉》

【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寵愛著的，這是他們吸引力來源的秘密。

【第51句】：When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers當神想懲罰我們時，他們就回應我們的祈禱。《一個理想的丈夫》

【第52句】：It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution給我們赦免的，是懺悔而不是牧師。

【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.夢想家只能在月光下找到前進的方向，他為此遭受的懲罰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.我們都生活在陰溝里，但仍有人仰望星空。

【第55句】：I like men who have a future and women who have a past我喜歡有未來的男人和有過去的女人。

【第56句】：Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others邪惡是善良的人們編造的謊言，用來解釋其他人的特殊魅力。

【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議論更糟糕，那就是沒有人議論你。

【第58句】：To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.愛自己就是開始延續一生的羅曼史。

【第59句】：The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.情感的好處就是讓我們誤入歧途。

【第60句】：I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.我喜歡自言自語，因為這樣節約時間，而且不會有人跟我爭論。

【第61句】：I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.我給你們講述的是所有你們沒勇氣去犯的罪孽。

【第62句】：Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.奚落是庸才對天才的頌歌。