Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life