奧斯卡·王爾德
19世紀(jì)英國(guó)最偉大的作家與藝術(shù)家
懷疑是信仰的開(kāi)始。
Men become old, but they never become good.
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
Good looks are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it.
Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between sexes.
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.
There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
I prefer women with a past. They are always so damned amusing to talk to.
We made gods of men and they leave us. Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful.
I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, that’s his.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriages make her look like a public building.
Nothing spoils a romance so much as sense of humour in the woman—or the want of it in the man.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is.