The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings (Bantam Classics)《十分喜

毕业论文，确切的说，第一稿毕业论文做的是这个故事。

决定拿它做论文之前，只读了一遍，还是学校的阅读课硬塞进来的。没想到读了之后就彻底喜欢上Wilde这厮了。他的语言令人读来直呼过瘾。而用他的语言来说这样一个故事更是令人只觉惊艳。教授说唯美主义发展到英国，发展到佩特和王尔德之后，就没落了，而本身也只是诸多“主义”中很不显眼的一支。但我想这种为艺术而艺术的奢侈，是此后再也寻不着的了。

于是很激情的一个寒假写好了论文初稿。可是被导师弊了，理由很怪异，说因为这是阅读课的书目，所以很多学生懒得看别的书，都写了这个。逼我换一东西写。

于是极其不情愿的挑三拣四了半天，终于选定写Salome，王尔德的一部短剧。仍是汹涌的美和情感的冲击；骇俗的语言。还记得以前在一家小店铺里喝东西听一个男人弹吉他唱歌的时候觉得自己的手指要跳舞。读Salome的几十遍里，我的心都在跳舞。后来买了施特劳斯的那个剧来看，也觉得不错。

摘一点以前搜罗的句子在这儿吧，其实到处都能找到，并且看这些句子远没有整段整段地读那些文字有意思，不过还是贴吧。

Men

"Men become old but they never become good."

-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"I delight in men over seventy they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. "

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!"

-- “An Ideal Husband”

"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."

-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."

-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."

-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

Women

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."

-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Women are meant to be loved not to be understood."

-- “The Sphinx Without a Secret”

"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."

-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!"

-- “An Ideal Husband”

"I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"My dear young lady there was a great deal of truth I dare say in what you said and you looked very pretty while you said it which is much more important."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change."

-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."

-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."

-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

People

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."

-- Letter from Paris dated May 1900

"The more one ***yses people the more all reasons for ***ysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."

-- “The Decay of Lying”

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing."

-- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."

-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”

"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Life

"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."

-- “Vera of The Nihilists”

"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

-- “An Ideal Husband”

"You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible."

-- “Salome”

"We are each our own devil and we make this world our hell."

-- “The Duchess of Padua”

"The world is a stage but the play is badly cast."

-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”

Love

"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

-- “An Ideal Husband”

"A kiss may ruin a human life."

-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot."

-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."

-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”