Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. 奥斯卡·怀德（1854年－1900年），爱尔兰作家、诗人、剧作家。
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：
女人生命只有一个真正的悲剧。那就是她的过去总是她的情人，而她的将来总是她的丈夫。
1862. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. 中文 / Chinese：
没有男人富有到可以买回他的过去。
1863. Men become old, but they never become good. 中文 / Chinese：
男人会老，但他们从不会变好。
1864. I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability. 中文 / Chinese：
我有时感到上帝创造人的时候，有点高估衪的能力。
1865. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. 中文 / Chinese：
通常是伪君子，而说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：
当男人是好丈夫时非常地单调沉闷，而当他们不是丈夫时极端地自负。
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：
一个男人真正拥有的是内涵。外表看来完全不重要。
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：
坏男人是那些欣赏天真的男人，而坏女人是那些男人从不厌倦的女人。
1817. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. 中文 / Chinese：
女人从不被赞美之词消除敌意。男人经常会。这就是两种性别的差别。
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无聊到一个程度，他失去所有对生活的可能有的兴趣。
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会隐藏她的面孔。
1820. Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in small change. 中文 / Chinese：
女人给男人她们生命中最宝贵的。但总是一点点要回来。
1821. Women have a wonderful instinct about everything. They can discover everything except the obvious. 中文 / Chinese：
女人对所有事物有奇妙的直觉。除了明显的事物，她们可以发现任何事情。
1822. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. 中文 / Chinese：
只要一个女人能够看起来比她女儿年轻十年，她便完全满足。
1823. Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them. 中文 / Chinese：
邪恶的女人烦一人。好的女人闷一人。那是她们唯一的差别。
1711. It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. 中文 / Chinese：
一件彻底愚蠢的事情要一个彻底善良的女人来做。
1712. American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. 中文 / Chinese：
美国女孩很聪明地隐藏父母，就像英国人隐藏他们的过去。
1713. The one charm of the past is that it is past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. 中文 / Chinese：
过去最吸引的是它已经过去。但女人从不知道甚麽时候窗簾已经跌下来。
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：
女人无意要判断我们，但当我们需要原谅时她们会原谅我们。宽恕而不处罚是她们的使命。
1715. Women are the most reliable as they have no memory for the important. 中文 / Chinese：
女人是最可靠的，她们对重要的事没有记忆力。
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：
有一样事情远比失掉一个所爱的女人更悲惨的，就是当获得她才发现她是多麽的肤浅。
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：
被爱慕是麻烦事情。女人对我们就像人类对神。她们崇拜我们而经常要求我们为她们做事。
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：
叁十五是一个十分吸引的年龄，伦敦社会充满著女仕们自己选择的叁十五岁，每一年都是。
1664. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrender. 中文 / Chinese：
女人用攻击来保卫自己，就像她们突然地攻击和奇怪地投降。
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：
女人是装饰的性别。她们从没有任何事要说，但她们说得很迷人。女人代表物质胜过思想，就像男人代表思想胜过道德。
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：
女人爱我们的缺陷。假如我们有足够的，她们会原谅所有事情，甚至我们庞大的理解力。
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。女人应该适量地想，做事也要适量。
1668. She looks like a woman with a past. Most pretty women do. 中文 / Chinese：
她看来是一个有过去的女人。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；至少好的女人不会。
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护然而是漂亮女人的废墟。
1613. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. 中文 / Chinese：
女人太迟了解人生。那是男人与女人的差别。
1614. I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!
中文 / Chinese：
我不认为女人经常因吸引而擭得回报。我认为她们通常为它而受到惩罚。
1615. Good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so small, their interests are so petty. 中文 / Chinese：
好的女人的人生观是那样有限，她们的视野是那样小，她们的兴趣是那样琐碎。
1616. She’ll never love you unless you are always at her heels; women like to be bothered. 中文 / Chinese：
她们不会爱你除非你经常陪她；女人喜欢被打扰。
1617. A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. 中文 / Chinese：
一个女人会跟世上任何人调情，只要其他人观看她。
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：
普通女人经常嫉妒于她们的丈夫。美丽的女人从来没有时间。她们经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：
回忆是我们都带著的日记。
1571. We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. 中文 / Chinese：
我们是我们自己的魔鬼，我们令这世界成为地狱。
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：
过去并不重要。现在亦不重要。我们要应付将来。过去人不应那样。现在人不可以这样。将来是艺术家的。
1573. One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. 中文 / Chinese：
时下的人可以在所有情况下生存，除了死亡，会淡忘任何事情除了好的名声。
1574. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. 中文 / Chinese：
女人是要爱的，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. 中文 / Chinese：
不应当相信一个告诉别人她的真实年龄的女人。她会告诉别人任何事情。
1576. It is perfectly brutal the way most women nowadays behave to men who are not their husbands. 中文 / Chinese：
现今大部份女性对待那些不是丈夫们的方式是完全地残忍的。
1506. The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. 中文 / Chinese：
生命的秘密是从不要有不适当的情绪。
1507. The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. 中文 / Chinese：
人生的书本从一男一女在一个花园开始。它在启示录结束。
1508. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 中文 / Chinese：
生存是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人存在，就这样而已。
1509. To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. 中文 / Chinese：
要成为生命的旁观者是逃脱生命的受苦。
1510. One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour. 中文 / Chinese：
一个人有时活了很多年但没有活过，然後一生就挤在一个小时里。
1511. Give me the luxuries, and anyone can have the necessaries. 中文 / Chinese：
给我奢侈，任何人可以拥有所需。
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：
因为人性从不知道去哪里亦从未能找到方向。
1513. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful. 中文 / Chinese：
我们生活在一个年代，阅读太多成为聪明，和想像太多成为美丽。
212. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. 中文 / Chinese：
男人想做女人的首个恋人，女人喜欢成为男人最後的浪漫。
213. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. 中文 / Chinese：
永远原谅你的敌人 — 这样最困扰他们。
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：
一般的财富会被偷去；但真正的不会。在你的灵魂内，有著无数珍贵的宝藏，而且无人能够取去。
215. One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. 中文 / Chinese：
人应该经常恋爱。那就是人不应结婚的理由。
216. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 中文 / Chinese：
如果一个人不能享受重複读一本书，读了也没有用。
217. Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. 中文 / Chinese：
社会的存在只是一个精神概念；在现实里只有个体的存在。
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：
好的忠告一定要传开去。它从不是留给自己用的。
219. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. 中文 / Chinese：
一个男人和任何一个女人都会开心，只要他不爱上她。
