MRS. ALLONBY: She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It was most annoying. LORD ILLINGWORTH: One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
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Related One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tel... OSCAR WILDE One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything. OSCAR WILDE LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It end... OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING: I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice. MRS. CHEVELEY... OSCAR WILDE Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live." "Did she?" Cha... PATRICIA BRIGGS It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quit... CHARLES DICKENS Jane Heard. ONE Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening OSCAR WILDE Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening OSCAR WILDE In one case, I was working with a woman who told me initially that she was recommending me to all he... KATHERINE CROWLEY What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do w... JULIE BURCHILL And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one so... MARK GONZALES A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .... enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of... PAMELA REDMOND SATRAN There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She was... DAVID WEBER Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ... ONE DIRECTION Not everyone was healed during these services. She would tell those who looked to her for a healing ... MARGO MONG I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who ... HENRY ROLLINS Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. ... JIM BUTCHER I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She ju... TATE TAYLOR Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lo... MARKUS ZUSAK She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN from I Knew a Woman I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small... THEODORE ROETHKE I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me t... INGRID BETANCOURT And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot." She raised her hand. "Don't." ILONA ANDREWS She drank like a drowning man helplessly swallowing sea water, in accordance with some law of nature... YUKIO MISHIMA In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil... RAF SIMONS Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?" "I want to look at you and remember wha... JODI PICOULT I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on a lot of issues," she e... LAURA BUSH I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would r... DON MARQUIS It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was RITA RUDNER What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. MURIEL RUKEYSER She was getting up in age, too, but you couldn't tell her that. PAULA RUIZ There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won a... SALMA HAYEK There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and r... ANONYMOUS When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the ... ELLEN J. BARRIER My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... LAUREN BACALL Whenever my old girl would catch me with a new one, I'd tell her she was just a friend - but she was... JOSE GUTIERREZ Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction t... FLORA KIDD He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the bo... MARKUS ZUSAK Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. 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ELIZABETH HARDWICK She'd never been able to resist temptation - especially an unhealthy one - and at that moment he was... STACIA KANE Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She ... ODETTE ANNABLE Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at a... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER I made one for a woman, and she was hugging it, wrapping herself in it and saying how good it felt. ... CATHERINE GIRGENTI Frank was her one true love, she told me. ARLENE DAHL No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and ... JACQUIE SMALL She was nothing but a woman who put other people in front of herself. She cared so much about her ki... NICOLE BROWN She is that maze, the one you would love to chase. She is the faith, quite missing no... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so. NIKKI ROWE The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything... CHINESE PROVERB The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything... CHINESE PROVERBS She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no... TONI MORRISON I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicat... MORTON FELDMAN It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could som... KERRELYN SPARKS She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin... NICHOLAS SPARKS When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably sp... JOHNNY MATHIS At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a pa... DEAN KOONTZ Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when ... ARIANA GRANDE Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I wo... DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and ... URI GELLER And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,... OSCAR WILDE It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. OSCAR WILDE The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. OSCAR WILDE I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front. OSCAR WILDE Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. OSCAR WILDE It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. 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OSCAR WILDE There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. OSCAR WILDE Everything popular is wrong. OSCAR WILDE To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. OSCAR WILDE Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ... OSCAR WILDE The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thin... OSCAR WILDE We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows th... OSCAR WILDE The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. OSCAR WILDE Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by... OSCAR WILDE Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. OSCAR WILDE Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look som... OSCAR WILDE When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her. OSCAR WILDE There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows... OSCAR WILDE One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually u... OSCAR WILDE The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. OSCAR WILDE This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again. OSCAR WILDE From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point... OSCAR WILDE His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except ... OSCAR WILDE An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o... OSCAR WILDE Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succ... OSCAR WILDE I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics. OSCAR WILDE He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. OSCAR WILDE Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father... OSCAR WILDE People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their... OSCAR WILDE What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It... OSCAR WILDE They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. OSCAR WILDE The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. OSCAR WILDE When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it... OSCAR WILDE Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her somethi... OSCAR WILDE They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. OSCAR WILDE On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American... OSCAR WILDE Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. OSCAR WILDE Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, ... OSCAR WILDE London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thorou... OSCAR WILDE Once can survive everything nowadays, except death. OSCAR WILDE For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die. OSCAR WILDE I am dying beyond my means. OSCAR WILDE To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intel... OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. OSCAR WILDE I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. OSCAR WILDE I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there... OSCAR WILDE That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London socie... OSCAR WILDE There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they... OSCAR WILDE Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck. OSCAR WILDE I like men who have a future and women who have a past OSCAR WILDE There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everythin... OSCAR WILDE Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, t... OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out OSCAR WILDE If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never... OSCAR WILDE Punctuality is the thief of time. OSCAR WILDE If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. OSCAR WILDE ...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the ... OSCAR WILDE Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, an... OSCAR WILDE Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very m... OSCAR WILDE None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. OSCAR WILDE A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. OSCAR WILDE The basis for optimism is sheer terror. OSCAR WILDE A pessimist is an optimist with experience OSCAR WILDE Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life. OSCAR WILDE The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde. OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexe... OSCAR WILDE What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? OSCAR WILDE The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so... OSCAR WILDE The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should g... OSCAR WILDE Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our ... OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. OSCAR WILDE The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all... OSCAR WILDE Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. OSCAR WILDE It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everythi... OSCAR WILDE I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. OSCAR WILDE In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby ... OSCAR WILDE He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. OSCAR WILDE In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. OSCAR WILDE As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on a... OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, w... OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. OSCAR WILDE I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is si... OSCAR WILDE To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies OSCAR WILDE I drink to separate my body from my soul. OSCAR WILDE He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his... OSCAR WILDE Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is w... OSCAR WILDE As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon a... OSCAR WILDE Those whom the gods love grow young. OSCAR WILDE In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefi... OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum... OSCAR WILDE Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. OSCAR WILDE There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and he... OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, wo... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are re... OSCAR WILDE To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be r... OSCAR WILDE Nothing succeeds like success. OSCAR WILDE When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. OSCAR WILDE An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. OSCAR WILDE Work is the curse of the drinking class. OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do. OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. OSCAR WILDE Time is waste of money. OSCAR WILDE Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any othe... OSCAR WILDE A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'... OSCAR WILDE All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imi... OSCAR WILDE In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. OSCAR WILDE Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite... OSCAR WILDE No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist. OSCAR WILDE Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice... OSCAR WILDE Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. OSCAR WILDE There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ... OSCAR WILDE When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,... OSCAR WILDE There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the... OSCAR WILDE The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ... OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en... OSCAR WILDE In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom... OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. 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OSCAR WILDE As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc... OSCAR WILDE The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio... OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t... OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau... OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t... OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your... OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love. OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. 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I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne... OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is... OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is... OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ... OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness... 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