It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. 只有肤浅的人才不会以貌取人

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

To define is to limit.

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

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

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

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 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial.That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is.

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

the search for beauty is the real secret of life.

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》

只有肤浅的人才不以貌取人，世界的秘密在于表象，而非内里。

-- 王尔德 《the picture of Dorian Gray》