你最喜欢王尔德的哪句名言？

Answer 1

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。

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。

——恋爱总是以自欺开始，以欺人结束。

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。

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。

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。

No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.

-An Ideal Husband (1895)

没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。

——改编自《理想的丈夫》

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》

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。

——爱自己就是开始延续一生的罗曼史。

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。

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。

What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.

什么是离婚的主要原因？结婚。

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。

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。

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。

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。

Answer 2

Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.

坏女人给我麻烦。好女人令我厌烦。这就是她们唯一的不同。

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

每个人犯了错误，都自称是经验。

——经验是一个人给自己所犯的错误取的名字。

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Literary and Other Notes I, Woman's World (November 1887)

时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋，以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次。

——时装丑陋得完全令人无法容忍，以至于我们必须每6个月就改变它的样式。

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

男人的面孔是他的自传，女人的面容是她的幻想作品。

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧：她总在缅怀过去，却必须活在未来。

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

我们教给人们如何记忆，却从来不教他们如何成长。

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

-The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)

任何人都能对朋友的不幸感到同情，但要消受一个春风得意的朋友，则需要非常优良的天性。

-《社会主义下人的灵魂》

"If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."

-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

如果一个女人不能让她犯的错误变得迷人，她就只是一个雌性动物。

-《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》

"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

大多数男人和女人被强迫扮演他们没有能力扮演的角色。我们的吉尔登斯吞为我们演哈姆雷特，而我们的哈姆雷特必须像霍尔王子一样来说笑。这个世界是个舞台，但角色被分配得很糟糕。

--《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》

*注：吉尔登斯吞，霍尔王子均为莎士比亚作品中人物

Answer 3

你的错误不是你对生活所知甚少，而是你知道得太多了。你已把童年时期的曙光中所拥有的那种精美的花朵，纯洁的光，天真的希望的快乐远远地抛在后面了。你已迅捷地奔跑着经过了浪漫进入了现实。

爱是不能在市场上公开买卖的，商贩的天平对之也毫无用途。爱的快乐，就像思想的快乐一样，在于感觉到它的存在。爱的目的就是爱，不多也不少。

万一我在世界上一个朋友也没有了，万一出于怜悯给我住的房子一间也没有了，万一我不得不接受赤贫者的百衲褴褛之衣，只要我能够继续摆脱所有的憎恨、冷酷和嘲弄，我就会比我身穿华丽的紫袍和漂亮的亚麻衣而灵魂却为憎恨缠绕更能平静地充满信心地面对生活。

靠爱，而且只靠爱，我们就能按照理想的方式理解处于现实关系中的其他人。

虚荣心是年轻人佩戴的一朵优雅的花。

拒绝或放弃自己的经历就是要阻止自己的发展，否认自己的经历就是自己对自己撒弥天大谎，这无异于否定灵魂。

真正的傻瓜，如上帝所嘲弄、毁灭的那些人，是不了解自己的人。

最大的罪恶是浅薄。一切被认识到的东西都是对的。

Answer 4

Life is one fool thing after another, whereas love is two fool things after each other.
读到这句话就会想起他的《夜莺和玫瑰》，那只为了追求至高无上的爱情而牺牲的夜莺。她用生命换来的红玫瑰最终被马车碾过，化作香尘无人知，爱情可不是令人变蠢么？就像……王尔德和百合花少年波西的爱情故事世人是知道的，可是人们却欠教会王尔德爱男人的罗比一个故事。罗比真蠢啊……教会了他男人和男人在一起的艺术，而不是和他自己——罗伯特，在一起的。也罢，爱情本就是两个蠢货你追我赶的游戏。