"ALGERNON. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposa...












All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.
"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
"Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that...
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any ...
"Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is...
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
"Bad artists always admire each others work.