I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Compliments Quotes, Men And Women Quotes

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses...

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

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth...

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth...

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

Only the shallow know themselves.

Only the shallow know themselves.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when...

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when...

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people...

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people...

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

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

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

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one...