All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
OSCAR WILDEAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
OSCAR WILDEWomen are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
OSCAR WILDEMen always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
OSCAR WILDEI am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
OSCAR WILDEBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
OSCAR WILDEYes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
OSCAR WILDEThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
OSCAR WILDEI don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
OSCAR WILDEMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
OSCAR WILDEIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDEIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
OSCAR WILDEHumanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
OSCAR WILDEFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
OSCAR WILDETo get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDENo good deed goes unpunished.
OSCAR WILDEBehind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDE