Quotes from Oscar Wilde

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

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.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.