一个人胜券在握时,总是应该公平行事。
奥斯卡·王尔德

英国作家、诗人、散文家

老时相信一切,中年怀疑一切,青年知道一切。

The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

经验是我们给错误取的另一个名字。

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

一个思想若称不上危险,那么它就不值得称作思想。

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

我简直太聪明了,有时连我自己都不知道自己在说什么。

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

永远别去爱一个把你当一般人对待的人。

Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.

生命太重,不必当真。

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

爱自己是终生浪漫史的开始。

To love oneself is the beginning of life long Romance.

活着是世上最稀有的事情。大多数人只是存在而已。

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

一个人胜券在握时,总是应该公平行事。

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

我的品味最简单。我总是对最好的感到满意。

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

艺术家是美好事物的创造者。

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

拥有自由、书、花和月亮,哪个人会不快乐?

With freedom, books, flowers and the moon who could not be happy?

摆脱诱惑的唯一方法是屈服于诱惑。

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

大多数人都不是自己。他们的思想是别人的意见,他们的生活是模仿别人的生活,他们的恋爱只是引述。

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕,那就是没有人议论你。

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

生活的秘诀在于享受被骗得很惨的乐趣。

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

把人分为好坏很荒谬。人要么有魅力,要么就无趣。

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.