Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I remember once, in talking to Mr. Burne-Jones about modern science, his saying to me, ‘the more materialistic science becomes, the more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
