Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination. They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them."
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"Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination. They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"To be popular one must be a mediocrity."Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all."It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied"
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Most people are boring and stupid."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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