The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands, or by the hands of others, that love should come to cure us – else what use is love at all? All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. A man’s love is like that. It is wider, larger, more human than a woman’s. Women think that they are making ideals of men. What they are making of us are false idols merely. You made your false idol of me, and I had not the courage to come down, show you my wounds, tell you my weaknesses. I was afraid that I might lose your love, as I have lost it now.
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OSCAR WILDE As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. OSCAR WILDE People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s... OSCAR WILDE The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is... 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. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere... OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit... OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent... OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti... OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of... OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that... OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ... OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! 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... OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. OSCAR WILDE