“除了天才之外，我沒(méi)有什么可申報(bào)的?！?br>“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
對(duì)于自己、對(duì)于人生、對(duì)于理想、對(duì)于女人、對(duì)于愛(ài)情……他都妙語(yǔ)連珠，毫不留情地犀利點(diǎn)破真相，這除了源于他天生的才華之外還與他波折的人生經(jīng)歷有關(guān)……
王爾德是19世紀(jì)美學(xué)運(yùn)動(dòng)的主力和頹廢派運(yùn)動(dòng)的先驅(qū)。他對(duì)英國(guó)社會(huì)的市儈哲學(xué)和虛偽道德深?lèi)和唇^，他要用藝術(shù)的“美”來(lái)同鄙俗現(xiàn)實(shí)中的“丑”相對(duì)抗。
盡管王爾德的悲劇童話(huà)作品不論故事背后暗藏的是同性還是異性的情愫，他所用的語(yǔ)言詞藻對(duì)情愛(ài)的修飾近乎一種浮華的美，但這種美對(duì)于世俗之愛(ài)的愛(ài)情最終的幻滅與消逝無(wú)濟(jì)于事，能夠達(dá)成完滿(mǎn)的唯有博愛(ài)的基督和至上的藝術(shù)。正如王爾德自己所言“藝術(shù)的目的不是簡(jiǎn)單的真實(shí)，而是復(fù)雜的美。
生不逢時(shí)，因?yàn)椴槐划?dāng)時(shí)社會(huì)所容忍的愛(ài)情（王爾德是一名同性戀者），他身陷牢獄，被愛(ài)人背叛，被世人所不齒。任性的道年輕愛(ài)人甚至曾對(duì)王爾德說(shuō)過(guò)：“如果你不再是那個(gè)高高在上的王爾德，那一切都不再有趣?！?/span>
在悲情而傳奇的46年之后，風(fēng)流傳奇的奧斯卡·王爾德化為一座別致的墓碑，在巴黎的墓地，按照他在詩(shī)集《斯芬克斯》中的意象，雕刻成了一座小小的獅身人面像。
（王爾德的墓碑）
在同性戀不再被視為異端、被普遍接受的20世紀(jì)末，在遭到毀譽(yù)近一個(gè)世紀(jì)以后，英國(guó)終于給了王爾德樹(shù)立雕像的榮譽(yù)。1998年11月30日，由麥姬·漢姆林雕塑的王爾德雕像在倫敦特拉法爾加廣場(chǎng)附近的阿德萊德街揭幕。雕像標(biāo)題為“與奧斯卡·王爾德的對(duì)話(huà)”，同時(shí)刻有王爾德常被引用的語(yǔ)錄：“我們都在陰溝里，但仍有人仰望星空?！保╓e are all in the gutter，but some of us arelooking at the stars.）
（“與奧斯卡·王爾德的對(duì)話(huà)”雕塑）
他在美和智慧的懷抱里孤獨(dú)地死去，但前赴后繼的人們?yōu)樗I(xiàn)上鮮艷的紅唇，獻(xiàn)上對(duì)至真至純至美的敬畏和追尋。
時(shí)間會(huì)給出一切答案，后世看來(lái)，王爾德無(wú)論是他的個(gè)性或者作品都是充滿(mǎn)魅力并且不朽的。
“除了天才之外，我沒(méi)有什么可申報(bào)的?！蓖鯛柕碌降资遣皇钦f(shuō)過(guò)這句話(huà)如今已很難考證。但即便是偽造，這句話(huà)也完全符合王爾德的身份、性格和氣質(zhì)，因?yàn)橥鯛柕戮褪沁@么一個(gè)恃才傲物又舌燦如蓮花的毒舌天才。
下面請(qǐng)欣賞一位古典時(shí)期段子手，英倫毒舌第一人王爾德先生的妙語(yǔ)連珠。
我簡(jiǎn)直太聰明了，有時(shí)連我自己都不知道自己在說(shuō)什么。
I am so clever that sometimes I don’tunderstand a single word of what I’m saying.
每次人們贊同我的時(shí)候，我都覺(jué)得自己一定錯(cuò)了。
Whenever people agree with me I always feelI must be wrong.
我整個(gè)早上都在校對(duì)自己的一首詩(shī)，我去掉了一個(gè)逗號(hào)。下午我又把它加了上去。
I was working on the proof of one of my poemsall morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it backagain.
我喜歡人甚于原則，此外我還喜歡沒(méi)原則的人甚于世界上的一切。
I like persons better than principles, andI like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
我不想生存；我想生活。
I don’t want to earn my living; I want tolive.
我不想去天堂，我的朋友都不在那里?！?/span>
I don't want to go to heaven. None of myfriends are there.
除了誘惑，我可以抵抗任何東西。
I can resist anything but temptation.
我喜歡有未來(lái)的男人和有過(guò)去的女人。
I like men who have a future and women whohave a past.
當(dāng)我年輕時(shí)，我以為金錢(qián)是人生中最重要的東西。現(xiàn)在我老了，我發(fā)現(xiàn)果真如此。
When I was young I used to think that moneywas the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know itis.
請(qǐng)轉(zhuǎn)告我對(duì)這家飯店廚師的贊譽(yù)，
這是全世界最糟糕的三明治了，
還有，我點(diǎn)的是豆瓣菜三明治，我并不是要面包片中夾一塊菜田。
Tell the cook of this restaurant with mycompliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world,and that when I ask for a watercress sandwich I do not mean a loaf with afield in the middle of it.
聲望是我從未經(jīng)受的侮辱之一。
Popularity is the one insult I have neversuffered.
愛(ài)自己就是開(kāi)始一場(chǎng)延續(xù)一生的羅曼史。
To love oneself is the beginning of alifelong romance.
我們都生活在陰溝里，但仍有人仰望星空。
We are all in the gutter, but some of usare looking at the stars.
夢(mèng)想家只能在月光下找到自己的路，他的懲罰是第一個(gè)看見(jiàn)黎明。
A dreamer is one who can only find his wayby moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the restof the world.
我想所有迷人的人都是被寵愛(ài)著的，這是他們魅力來(lái)源的秘密。
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
只有無(wú)聊的人才會(huì)把早餐吃出花樣來(lái)。
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
只有淺薄的人才了解自己。
Only the shallow know themselves.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方法就是服從它。
The only way to get rid of a temptation isto yield to it.
糟糕的畫(huà)家總是欣賞彼此的作品。
Bad artists always admire each other'swork.
努力不過(guò)是無(wú)事可做的人的避難所。
Hard work is simply the refuge of peoplewho have nothing to do.
一個(gè)優(yōu)秀的人沒(méi)有敵人，但他的朋友也沒(méi)有一個(gè)喜歡他。
An excellent man; he has no enemies; andnone of his friends like him.
借錢(qián)就要向悲觀主義者借，因?yàn)樗麄儾粫?huì)期待你還錢(qián)。
Always borrow money from a pessimist. Hewon't expect it back.
生活從來(lái)不是公平的……而且，或許對(duì)我們大多數(shù)人來(lái)說(shuō)，這是件好事。
Life is never fair...And perhaps it is agood thing for most of us that it is not.
生活是世上最罕見(jiàn)的事情，大多數(shù)人只是存在，僅此而已。
To live is the rarest thing in the world.Most people exist, that is all.
一個(gè)人總是可以善待他毫不在意的人。
One can always be kind to people one caresnothing about.
美麗要比善良好，善良要比難看強(qiáng)。
It is better to be beautiful than to begood, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
時(shí)裝丑陋得完全令人無(wú)法容忍，以至于我們必須每6個(gè)月就改變它的樣式。
Fashion is a form of ugliness sointolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
爭(zhēng)論者損失的只是智商。
It is only the intellectually lost who everargue.
報(bào)紙和文學(xué)的區(qū)別是，報(bào)紙沒(méi)法讀，而文學(xué)則沒(méi)人讀。
The difference between journalism and literatureis that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
演出相當(dāng)成功，但觀眾則是一場(chǎng)災(zāi)難。
The play was a great success, but theaudience was a disaster.
所有糟糕的詩(shī)歌都源于真情實(shí)感。
All bad poetry springs from genuinefeeling.
心是用來(lái)碎的。
The heart was made to be broken.
世界上只有一件事比被人議論更糟糕，那就是沒(méi)人議論你。
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
任何人都能對(duì)朋友的不幸感到同情，但要消受一個(gè)春風(fēng)得意的朋友，則需要非常優(yōu)良的天性。
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a veryfine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
每個(gè)圣人都有過(guò)去，每個(gè)罪人都有未來(lái)。
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
我喜歡看戲。與人生相比，戲劇更加真實(shí)。
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
不滿(mǎn)是個(gè)人或民族邁向進(jìn)步的第一步。
Discontent is the first step in theprogress of a man or a nation.
年輕人想要有信仰，但他們卻沒(méi)有；老年人不想要有信仰，但卻辦不到。
Young men want to be faithful, and are not;old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
沒(méi)有人富有到可以贖回自己的過(guò)去。
No man is rich enough to buy back his ownpast.
當(dāng)天神想要懲罰我們，他們就答應(yīng)我們的祈禱。
When the gods wish to punish us, theyanswer our prayers.
我想，上帝在創(chuàng)造人類(lèi)時(shí)高估了他的能力。
I think that God, in creating Man, somewhatoverestimated his ability.
教育是一件可敬的事，但要時(shí)刻牢記，沒(méi)有什么值得知道的事是教得會(huì)的。
Education is an admirable thing, but it iswell to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing canbe taught.
經(jīng)驗(yàn)是一個(gè)人給自己所犯的錯(cuò)誤取的名字。
Experience is the name every one gives totheir mistakes.
世界上只有兩種悲劇，一種是一個(gè)人沒(méi)有得到他想要的，另一種是他得到了。
In this world there are only two tragedies.One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
對(duì)于忠告，你所能做的，就是把它奉送給別人，忠告從來(lái)就不是給自己準(zhǔn)備的。
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of anyuse to oneself.
恭維話(huà)從來(lái)沒(méi)有讓女人繳械，但可以讓男人繳械。這就是性別差異。
Women are never disarmed by compliments.Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
女人在世上的日子要比男人好過(guò)得多。她們有太多禁忌。
Women have a much better time than men in thisworld. There are far more things forbidden to them.
女人代表著物質(zhì)戰(zhàn)勝了理智，正如男人代表著理智戰(zhàn)勝了道德。
Women represent the triumph of matter overmind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
所有女人都會(huì)變得像她們的母親一樣，這是女人的悲劇。
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
女人如何能期望會(huì)從男人那里獲得幸福，如果他堅(jiān)持把她當(dāng)作一個(gè)完全正常的人。
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treatingher as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
一個(gè)人決不能相信說(shuō)出自己真實(shí)年齡的女人。如果她把這都說(shuō)出來(lái)了，那她什么都會(huì)說(shuō)。
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that,she'll tell anything.
男人的臉是自傳，女人的臉是小說(shuō)。
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
如果一個(gè)女人不能把自己的錯(cuò)誤變得迷人，那她就只是一個(gè)雌性動(dòng)物。
If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.'
女人是用來(lái)被愛(ài)的，不是用來(lái)理解的。
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
人生就是一件蠢事追著另一件蠢事而來(lái)，而愛(ài)情則是兩個(gè)蠢東西追來(lái)追去。
Life is one fool thing after anotherwhereas love is two fool things after each other.
離婚的主要原因是什么？結(jié)婚。
What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
結(jié)婚是想象戰(zhàn)勝了理智，再婚是希望戰(zhàn)勝了經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage isthe triumph of hope over experience.
已婚男人的快樂(lè)來(lái)自那些他沒(méi)有娶的人。
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
情感的好處就是讓我們誤入歧途。
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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