"Women have become so highly educated... that..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!”

“I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.”

“An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

“A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.”

“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”

“One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.”

“Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.”

“I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.”