An Ideal Husband

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.

-- 王尔德 《An Ideal Husband》

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

-- 王尔德 《An Ideal Husband》

How men stand up for each other! How women war against each other!

-- 王尔德 《An Ideal Husband》

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 《An Ideal Husband》

It was your ambition that led you astray.

-- 王尔德 《An Ideal Husband》

It is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.

-- 王尔德 《An Ideal Husband》

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands, or by the hands of others, that love should come to cure us - else what use is love at all?

-- 王尔德 《An Ideal Husband》

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

-- 王尔德 《An Ideal Husband》