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

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Women Quotes

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless...

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one...

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

The secret of life is in art.

The secret of life is in art.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless,...

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so...

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so...

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

A guy is a boy by birth, a man by age, but a gentleman by...

A guy is a boy by birth, a man by age, but a gentleman by...

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be...

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be...