“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a woman marries againit is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You must admit, Harry, that women give to men the very gold of their lives.' 'Possibly,' he sighed, 'but they invariably want… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — 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
