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Афоризмы. О.Уайльд. Ч.3

"умный" - "clever"
"в наши дни" - "nowadays"
"абсолютный" - "absolute"
"общественный" - "public"
"досада" - "nuisance"
"опасный" - "dangerous"
"исправлять" - "to reform"
"пунктуальность" - "punctuality"
"вор" - "thief"
"сточная канава" - "gutter"
"звезда" - "star"
"момент" - "moment"
"полностью" - "entirely"
"влачить" - "to drag out"
"фальшивый" - "false"
"поверхностный" - "shallow"
"унизительный" - "degrading"
"существование" - "existence"
"лицемерие" - "hypocrisy"
"требовать" - "to demand"
"вопрос" - "question"
"нескромный" - "indiscreet"
"неприятность" - "trouble"
"успокаивать" - "to console"
"более того" - "indeed"
"очень близко" - "intimately"
"отказываться" - "to refuse"
"за исключением" - "except"
"пища" - "food"

Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. This has become an absolute public nuisance.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.

Questions are never indiscreet; answers sometimes are.

When I am in trouble eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink.