Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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