Born to be Oscar Wilde

· Men become old, but they never become good.
· Mrs. Allonby: I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
· I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability.
· How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them?
· No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
· A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
· Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
· Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
· Lady Windermere: ...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 awhile heap of things that he doesn't mean.
· 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.
· One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
· Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
· Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
· It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
· I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!
· 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.
· 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. She looks like a woman with a past. Most pretty women do.
· Women give to men the very gold of their lives.But they invariably want it back in small change.
· I am sick of women who love me. Women who hate me are much more interesting.
· I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
· 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.
· The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
· The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
· Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
· It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against on behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
· Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
· The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelation.
· Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
· You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible
· We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
· The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast
· Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman--or the want of it in the man.
· One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
· To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
· A kiss may ruin a human life
· A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
· Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
· Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failures.