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
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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.
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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.
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Sphinxes without secrets.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.