"It takes a thoroughly good woman to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”

“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness”

“111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.”

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”