Quotes by Oscar Wilde

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts ones eyes, and does not look at him.

Well I wont argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Im too old to know everything

I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

A mans face is his autobiography. A womans face is her work of fiction.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other womens husbands.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls dont think it right.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head; and women rule the world. I assure you we cant bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.It seems to me that we never do anything else, murmered Dorian.