Quotes about Men
“No man is rich enough to buy back his
past.”
“Good resolutions are simply checks
that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
“Men become old, but they never become
good.”
— “Lady Windermere’s Fan”
“I delight in men over seventy, they
always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. ”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“How many men there are in modern life
who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!”
— “An Ideal Husband”
“A man who moralizes is usually a
hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.”
— “Lady Windermere’s Fan”
“Nowadays all the married men live like
bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men.”
— “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“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.”
— “Lady Windermere’s Fan”
Quotes about
Women
“One should never trust a woman who
tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one
anything.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“Crying is the refuge of plain women
but the ruin of pretty ones.”
— “Lady Windermere’s Fan”
“Men know life too early. Women know
life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be
understood.”
— “The Sphinx without a Secret”
“It takes a thoroughly good woman to do
a thoroughly stupid thing.”
— “Lady Windermere’s Fan”
“I don’t know that women are always
rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!”
— “An Ideal Husband”
“I don’t think there is a woman in the
world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that
which makes women so irresistibly adorable.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“My dear young lady, there was a great
deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while
you said it, which is much more important.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“Women give to men the very gold of
their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change.”
— “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“I am sick of women who love one. Women
who hate one are much more interesting.”
— “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“I prefer women with a past. They’re
always so damned amusing to talk to.”
— “Lady Windermere’s Fan”
Quotes about
People
“People who count their chickens before
they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that
it is impossible to count them accurately.”
— Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
“The more one analyses people, the more
all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful
universal thing called human nature.”
— “The Decay of Lying”
“The public have an insatiable
curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
— “The Soul of Man under Socialism”
“Most men and women are forced to
perform parts for which they have no qualification.”
— “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”
“It is perfectly monstrous the way
people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are
absolutely and entirely true.”
— “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Quotes about
Life
“Life is much too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about it.”
— Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I
“The Book of Life begins with a man and
woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a
good thing for most of us that it is not.”
— “An Ideal Husband”
“You must not find symbols in
everything you see. It makes life impossible.”
— “Salome”
“We are each our own devil, and we make
this world our hell.”
— “The Duchess of Padua”
“The world is a stage, but the play is
badly cast.”
— “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”
Quotes about
Love
“Nothing spoils a romance so much as a
sense of humor in the woman – or the want of it in the man.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“One should always be in love. That is
the reason one should never marry.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a
life-long romance.”
— “An Ideal Husband”
“A kiss may ruin a human life.”
— “A Woman of No Importance”
“A man can be happy with any woman as
long as he does not love her.”
— “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“Young men want to be faithful and are
not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.”
— “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“Faithfulness is to the emotional life
what consistency is to the life of the intellect – simply a confession of
failures.”
— “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
