Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar WildeTags: marriage
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
Oscar WildeWomen love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar WildeThere was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
Oscar WildeWhen a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar WildeGood heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!
Tags: movie-quote
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Oscar WildeTags: sociology
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar WildeShe is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar WildeTags: woman-s-charm
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
Oscar WildeTags: imagination crime
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