The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: humor men women reform
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Oscar WildeBecause to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion -- these are the two things that govern us.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: soul
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: gender-stereotypes gender-roles
There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.
Oscar WildeBut what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
Oscar WildeShe knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
Oscar WildeThe soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Oscar WildeIf they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar WildeWe teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: remember-growth
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