"We women adore failures. They lean on..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.”

“Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.”

“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”

“The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.”

“An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.”

“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”

“Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.”

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

“The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.”