Oscar Wilde 格言

接觸了Oscar Wilde的格言以後，覺得他的話涉及面很廣，而且都頗有深意。這裡翻譯一些供大家欣賞。

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
一點點真誠是很危險的東西，而完全的真誠則是致命的。

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
男人與任何女人在一起都高興，只要他不愛她。

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
要永遠寬容你的敵人，沒有別的事更能讓他們煩惱了。

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
美國是唯一一個從原始直接跳到衰落而中間未留下任何文明的國家。

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
避免爭執，因為它們大多數都很粗魯，很具有說服力。

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
一致性是無想象力的借口。

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
每一幅由感情畫出的畫描繪的都是畫家，而不是模特。

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
時尚是一種難以忍受的醜陋，這也就是為什麼我們要六個月換一次。

Genius is born--not paid.
天才是生出來的，不是錢堆出來的。

I am not young enough to know everything.
我還沒有年輕到什麼都懂的地步。

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
幻想是所有樂趣的第一步。

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
＊翻譯不好。。

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
大多數人都過別人的生活。他們的思想被別人的言論引導著。他們一生摹仿，他們熱衷於別人的格言。

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
勝券在握的時候，就可以按規矩出牌了。

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
自私不是指某人只實現自己的願望，而是指讓別人實現自己的願望。

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
一個好建議的唯一用處就是傳授給別人。這些東西對自己從來沒用的。

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

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
當神要懲罰我們的時候，它會回答我們的祈禱。

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
一個人的真實生活通常不是這個人可控制的。

I can resist anything but temptation.
我可以抵抗任何事，除了誘惑。

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
生命太重要了，所以我們不能太認真對待。

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
經驗，人們給自己的錯誤起的別名。

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我們都是井底之蛙，但有些人看的是天上的繁星。

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
什麼是諷世者？就是知道所有事物的價錢而不知道它們的價值的人。

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
文學與報道的區別是什麼？
報道不是人讀的，而文學沒有人讀。

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
輿論是非常寬容的。他們可以容忍除了天才以外的任何事。

Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
不要說社會的壞話。只有無法溶入社會的人才這麼說。

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
現實極少純潔而從不簡單。

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
三十五是一個很有吸引力的年齡。許多倫敦高貴的婦女們選擇在這一年齡留好多年。

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
一個人選敵人時一定要萬分小心。

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
我熱愛表演。它比真實生活真實多了。

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
唯一能離開誘惑的方法就是屈服與它。

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
如果一個男人做了一見徹底的蠢事，他總會有一個高貴的動機。

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
為了再次年輕我願意做任何事，除了運動，早起，和贏得別人的尊重。

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
書沒有好與壞之分。書或者寫得好，或者寫的不好。

Men always want to be a woman』s first love; women like to be a man』s last romance.
男人想做女人的第一個愛情，女人想做男人的最後一次浪漫。

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
他沒有敵人，只是他的朋友都很討厭他。

The proper basis for a marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
婚姻的基礎是一個雙方的誤會。

The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.
那全世界都稱之為「無恥」的書展現著全世界的無恥。

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly put do the day after.
我從來不把事情拖到明天，如果我知道可以拖到後天的話。

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
教育是很重要的，但要記住，值得了解的事情不是教出來的。

When asked why he thought it impossible to name his one hundred favorite books:  
Because I have only written five.  
當被問道「為什麼沒法列出最欣賞的一百本書？」
因為我只寫了五本。

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
聖賢與罪犯只有有一個區別。每個聖賢都有一段過去，而每個罪犯都有一個未來。

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
世界就是一個大舞台，就是演員比較差勁。

A true friend stabs you in the front.
真正的朋友在面前捅你。

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
多妻制的問題就是妻子太多，一妻制也是。

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
是的，我是一個追夢人。我只有在月夜下才能找到歸路，但我在全世界之前看到黎明。

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
一個人在談論自己時是最不誠實的,給他一個偽裝成別人的面具,他才可能會告訴你事有關自己的事實.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
我們教育別人如何能記住過去,我們從不教育別人如何成長.

I donno, my translation sucks too.