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1、A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ----王尔德

2、In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. ----王尔德

3、We men know life too early.
And we women know life too late. ----王尔德

4、Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. ----王尔德

5、Oh! Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. ----王尔德

6、The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted. ----王尔德

7、需要很多力量，很多傲气，或者很多爱，才能相信人的行动是有价值的，相信生命胜过死亡。 ----西蒙娜·德·波伏娃

8、I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. ----王尔德

9、All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
No man does. That is his. ----王尔德

10、Girls never marry the men they flirt with. It accounts for the extraordinary number of bachelors that one sees all over the place. ----王尔德

11、We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
在这个时代里，那些非必需品反而成了我们的必需品。 ----王尔德

12、Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands. ----王尔德

13、Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. ----王尔德

14、To define is to limit. ----王尔德

15、（达.芬奇）也曾靠在一根柱子上站在那儿，呆望着法国兵怎样把他的一尊骑士像当做练习射击的靶子，一节一节地把马和骑上摧毁。达.芬奇那次也像我一样站在那儿用心地、满意地观看这可怕的一幕，因为达.芬奇当时已经认识到天道不仁慈，因而有头脑的人也不仁慈。 ----赫拉巴尔

16、the search for beauty is the real secret of life. ----王尔德

17、In a Temple every one should be serious, except the thing that is worshipped. ----王尔德

18、You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your heads. ----王尔德

19、More marvellous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. ----王尔德

20、And as for thy dreams, think no more of them. The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer. ----王尔德

21、We(men) have emancipated them(women), but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated. ----王尔德

22、在同样的天空下，将是同样阴郁的树木，同样空虚的笑声和水声，可是，不论在大地上，天空中，水面上，安托纳留不下一点最细微的痕迹。 ----西蒙娜·德·波伏娃

23、Do not accept a sacrifice so great. If you do, you will live to repent it bitterly. We men and women are not made to accept such sacrifices from each other. We are not worthy of them. ----王尔德

24、To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! ----王尔德

25、Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay ARE compliments. They're the only things we CAN pay. ----王尔德

26、There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating--people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ----王尔德

27、Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue. ----王尔德

28、to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. ----王尔德

29、In married life three is company and two is none. ----王尔德

30、I can sympathize with everything except suffering, I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. ----王尔德