Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Who, being loved, is poor?

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

In married life three is company and two none.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.