Quotes from Oscar Wilde

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

All women are rebels.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.