奧斯卡·王爾德（Oscar Wilde，1854年10月16日—1900年11月30日），出生于愛爾蘭都柏林，19世紀(jì)英國（準(zhǔn)確來講是愛爾蘭，當(dāng)時由英國統(tǒng)治）最偉大的作家與藝術(shù)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(jì)80年代美學(xué)運(yùn)動的主力和90年代頹廢派運(yùn)動的先驅(qū)。
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.
我們生活在陰溝里，但依然有人仰望星空。
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
女人是用來被愛的，不是用來被理解的。
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
做你自己，其他角色都已經(jīng)有人扮演了。
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
我們看起來似乎痛苦的試煉，往往是偽裝起來的好運(yùn)。
Every Saint has a past, every sinner has a future.
每個圣人都有過去，每個罪人都有未來。
The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
老時相信一切，中年懷疑一切，青年知道一切。
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
經(jīng)驗是我們給錯誤取的另一個名字。
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
一個思想若稱不上危險，那么它就不值得稱作思想。
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
我簡直太聰明了，有時連我自己都不知道自己在說什么。
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
如今人們對每樣?xùn)|西的價格了如指掌，對它們的價值卻一無所知。
Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.
永遠(yuǎn)別去愛一個把你當(dāng)一般人對待的人。
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
生命太重，不必當(dāng)真。
To love oneself is the beginning of life long Romance.
愛自己是終生浪漫史的開始。
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
適度是極其致命的事情。 過度帶來的成功無可比擬。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
活著是世上最稀有的事情。 大多數(shù)人只是存在而已。
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
沒有人富有到可以贖回自己的過去。
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
一個人勝券在握時，總是應(yīng)該公平行事。
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
我的品味最簡單。 我總是對最好的感到滿意。
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
藝術(shù)家是美好事物的創(chuàng)造者。
With freedom, books, flowers and the moon who could not be happy?
擁有自由、書、花和月亮，哪個人會不快樂?
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方法是屈服于誘惑。
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
大多數(shù)人都不是自己。 他們的思想是別人的意見，他們的生活是模仿別人的生活，他們的戀愛只是引述。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人議論更糟糕，那就是沒有人議論你。
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
生活的秘訣在于享受被騙得很慘的樂趣。
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
把人分為好壞很荒謬。 人要么有魅力，要么就無趣。
