Oscar Wilde
Irish writer
Lived from: 1854 - 1900
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: Ireland
Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) h. 15― Oscar Wilde -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
An Ideal Husband (1895) Act IV.― Oscar Wilde -
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
― Oscar Wilde
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