Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. 奧斯卡·懷德（1854年－1900年），愛爾蘭作家、詩人、劇作家。
1862. 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. 中文 / Chinese：
女人生命只有一個真正的悲劇。那就是她的過去總是她的情人，而她的將來總是她的丈夫。
1862. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. 中文 / Chinese：
沒有男人富有到可以買回他的過去。
1863. Men become old, but they never become good. 中文 / Chinese：
男人會老，但他們從不會變好。
1864. I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability. 中文 / Chinese：
我有時感到上帝創造人的時候，有點高估衪的能力。
1865. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. 中文 / Chinese：
通常是偽君子，而說教的女人必然是普通。
1866. Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. 中文 / Chinese：
當男人是好丈夫時非常地單調沉悶，而當他們不是丈夫時極端地自負。
1867. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. 中文 / Chinese：
一個男人真正擁有的是內涵。外表看來完全不重要。
1868. A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence, and a bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. 中文 / Chinese：
壞男人是那些欣賞天真的男人，而壞女人是那些男人從不厭倦的女人。
1817. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. 中文 / Chinese：
女人從不被贊美之詞消除敵意。男人經常會。這就是兩種性別的差別。
1818. The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. 中文 / Chinese：
女人要改造男人唯一的方法是令他無聊到一個程度，他失去所有對生活的可能有的興趣。
1819. It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces. 中文 / Chinese：
只有十分醜陋或十分漂亮的女人會隱藏她的面孔。
1820. Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in small change. 中文 / Chinese：
女人給男人她們生命中最寶貴的。但總是一點點要回來。
1821. Women have a wonderful instinct about everything. They can discover everything except the obvious. 中文 / Chinese：
女人對所有事物有奇妙的直覺。除了明顯的事物，她們可以發現任何事情。
1822. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. 中文 / Chinese：
只要一個女人能夠看起來比她女兒年輕十年，她便完全滿足。
1823. Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them. 中文 / Chinese：
邪惡的女人煩一人。好的女人悶一人。那是她們唯一的差別。
1711. It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. 中文 / Chinese：
一件徹底愚蠢的事情要一個徹底善良的女人來做。
1712. American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. 中文 / Chinese：
美國女孩很聰明地隱藏父母，就像英國人隱藏他們的過去。
1713. The one charm of the past is that it is past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. 中文 / Chinese：
過去最吸引的是它已經過去。但女人從不知道甚麼時候窗簾已經跌下來。
1714. Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon not punishment, is their mission. 中文 / Chinese：
女人無意要判斷我們，但當我們需要原諒時她們會原諒我們。寬恕而不處罰是她們的使命。
1715. Women are the most reliable as they have no memory for the important. 中文 / Chinese：
女人是最可靠的，她們對重要的事沒有記憶力。
1716. There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is. 中文 / Chinese：
有一樣事情遠比失掉一個所愛的女人更悲慘的，就是當獲得她才發現她是多麼的膚淺。
1717. Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as Humanity treats its Gods. They worship us and are always asking us to do something for them. 中文 / Chinese：
被愛慕是麻煩事情。女人對我們就像人類對神。她們崇拜我們而經常要求我們為她們做事。
1663. Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. 中文 / Chinese：
三十五是一個十分吸引的年齡，倫敦社會充滿著女仕們自己選擇的三十五歲，每一年都是。
1664. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrender. 中文 / Chinese：
女人用攻擊來保衛自己，就像她們突然地攻擊和奇怪地投降。
1665. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. 中文 / Chinese：
女人是裝飾的性別。她們從沒有任何事要說，但她們說得很迷人。女人代表物質勝過思想，就像男人代表思想勝過道德。
1666. Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our own gigantic intellects. 中文 / Chinese：
女人愛我們的缺陷。假如我們有足夠的，她們會原諒所有事情，甚至我們龐大的理解力。
1667. I don’t believe in women thinking too much. Women should think in moderation, as they should do all things in moderation. 中文 / Chinese：
我不相信女人想太多。女人應該適量地想，做事也要適量。
1668. She looks like a woman with a past. Most pretty women do. 中文 / Chinese：
她看來是一個有過去的女人。大部份漂亮女人都是。
1669. Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least good women have not. 中文 / Chinese：
女人不感激美貌；至少好的女人不會。
1612. Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. 中文 / Chinese：
哭泣是普通女人的庇護然而是漂亮女人的廢墟。
1613. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. 中文 / Chinese：
女人太遲了解人生。那是男人與女人的差別。
1614. I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!
中文 / Chinese：
我不認為女人經常因吸引而擭得回報。我認為她們通常為它而受到懲罰。
1615. Good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so small, their interests are so petty. 中文 / Chinese：
好的女人的人生觀是那樣有限，她們的視野是那樣小，她們的興趣是那樣瑣碎。
1616. She’ll never love you unless you are always at her heels; women like to be bothered. 中文 / Chinese：
她們不會愛你除非你經常陪她；女人喜歡被打擾。
1617. A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. 中文 / Chinese：
一個女人會跟世上任何人調情，只要其他人觀看她。
1618. Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people’s husbands. 中文 / Chinese：
普通女人經常嫉妒于她們的丈夫。美麗的女人從來沒有時間。她們經常忙於嫉妒于其他人的丈夫。
1570. Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. 中文 / Chinese：
回憶是我們都帶著的日記。
1571. We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. 中文 / Chinese：
我們是我們自己的魔鬼，我們令這世界成為地獄。
1572. But the past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. 中文 / Chinese：
過去並不重要。現在亦不重要。我們要應付將來。過去人不應那樣。現在人不可以這樣。將來是藝術家的。
1573. One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. 中文 / Chinese：
時下的人可以在所有情況下生存，除了死亡，會淡忘任何事情除了好的名聲。
1574. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. 中文 / Chinese：
女人是要愛的，而不是要明白。
1575. One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. x中文 / Chinese：
不應當相信一個告訴別人她的真實年齡的女人。她會告訴別人任何事情。
1576. It is perfectly brutal the way most women nowadays behave to men who are not their husbands. 中文 / Chinese：
現今大部份女性對待那些不是丈夫們的方式是完全地殘忍的。
1506. The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. 中文 / Chinese：
生命的秘密是從不要有不適當的情緒。
1507. The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. 中文 / Chinese：
人生的書本從一男一女在一個花園開始。它在啟示錄結束。
1508. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 中文 / Chinese：
生存是世界上最罕見的事情。大多數人存在，就這樣而已。
1509. To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. 中文 / Chinese：
要成為生命的旁觀者是逃脫生命的受苦。
1510. One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour. 中文 / Chinese：
一個人有時活了很多年但沒有活過，然後一生就擠在一個小時裡。
1511. Give me the luxuries, and anyone can have the necessaries. 中文 / Chinese：
給我奢侈，任何人可以擁有所需。
1512. It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has never been able to find its way. 中文 / Chinese：
因為人性從不知道去哪裡亦從未能找到方向。
1513. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful. 中文 / Chinese：
我們生活在一個年代，閱讀太多成為聰明，和想像太多成為美麗。
212. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. 中文 / Chinese：
男人想做女人的首個戀人，女人喜歡成為男人最後的浪漫。
213. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. 中文 / Chinese：
永遠原諒你的敵人 — 這樣最困擾他們。
214. Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. 中文 / Chinese：
一般的財富會被偷去；但真正的不會。在你的靈魂內，有著無數珍貴的寶藏，而且無人能夠取去。
215. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. 中文 / Chinese：
人應該經常戀愛。那就是人不應結婚的理由。
216. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 中文 / Chinese：
如果一個人不能享受重複讀一本書，讀了也沒有用。
217. Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. 中文 / Chinese：
社會的存在只是一個精神概念；在現實裡只有個體的存在。
218. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. 中文 / Chinese：
好的忠告一定要傳開去。它從不是留給自己用的。
219. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. 中文 / Chinese：
一個男人和任何一個女人都會開心，只要他不愛上她。
