Qian Zhongshu's classic sentence of besieged city is as follows:

1. There are only two kinds of people in the world. For example, when you get a bunch of grapes, one person chooses the best to eat first, and the other person saves the best for last. As usual, the first person should be optimistic, because every grape he eats is the best among the leftover grapes; The second person should be pessimistic, because every one he eats is the worst grape left over.

2. Gossip spreads faster than flu, has more energy than meteors, is more malicious than hooligans, and can make people exhausted than abortion.

3. The person I love, I want to be able to occupy his whole life. Before he met me, he had no past and left a blank to wait for me.

4. Love is mostly unsuccessful, either because of the boredom of getting married, or because of the sadness of not getting married.

5. People who are uneducated are deceived by others because they can't read; Educated people are fooled by printed matter because they can read.

6. at first, an appointment to meet can make the days before and after meeting be stained with light and become a good day.

7. People should know that they have a secret, but don't let others know what it is. When they ask, they should guess that this is the emptiness of human nature.

8. Without dreams and feelings, the most primitive' sleep' in life is also a sample of death.

9. It is cruel to look closely at ugly people.

1. There is no accident in the world. It is only the necessity of wearing makeup and masks.