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Quotes About Men<\/h3>\n

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”<\/p>\n

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”<\/p>\n

“Men become old, but they never become good.”
\n— \u201cLady Windermere’s Fan\u201d<\/p>\n

“I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. ”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!”
\n— \u201cAn Ideal Husband\u201d<\/p>\n

“A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.”
\n— \u201cLady Windermere’s Fan\u201d<\/p>\n

“Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men.”
\n— \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d<\/p>\n

“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.”
\n— \u201cLady Windermere’s Fan\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes About Women<\/h3>\n

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
\n— \u201cLady Windermere’s Fan\u201d<\/p>\n

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
\n— \u201cThe Sphinx Without a Secret\u201d<\/p>\n

“It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.”
\n— \u201cLady Windermere’s Fan\u201d<\/p>\n

“I don’t know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!”
\n— \u201cAn Ideal Husband\u201d<\/p>\n

“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.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“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.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change.”
\n— \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d<\/p>\n

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
\n— \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d<\/p>\n

“I prefer women with a past. They’re always so damned amusing to talk to.”
\n— \u201cLady Windermere’s Fan\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes About People<\/h3>\n

“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.”
\n— Letter from Paris, dated May 1900<\/p>\n

“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”
\n— \u201cThe Decay of Lying\u201d<\/p>\n

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
\n— \u201cThe Soul of Man Under Socialism\u201d<\/p>\n

“Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.”
\n— \u201cLord Arthur Savile’s Crime\u201d<\/p>\n

“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.”
\n— \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes About Life<\/h3>\n

“Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”
\n— Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I<\/p>\n

“The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
\n— \u201cAn Ideal Husband\u201d<\/p>\n

“You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible.”
\n— \u201cSalome\u201d<\/p>\n

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
\n— \u201cThe Duchess of Padua\u201d<\/p>\n

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
\n— \u201cLord Arthur Savile’s Crime\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes About Love<\/h3>\n

“Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman – or the want of it in the man.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
\n— \u201cAn Ideal Husband\u201d<\/p>\n

“A kiss may ruin a human life.”
\n— \u201cA Woman of No Importance\u201d<\/p>\n

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
\n— \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d<\/p>\n

“Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.”
\n— \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d<\/p>\n

“Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect – simply a confession of failures.”
\n— \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d<\/p>\n

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