"Crying is the refuge of plain women..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
More by Oscar Wilde
“Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.”
“Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.”
More on Beauty
“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”
“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”
More on Women
“Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.”
“If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.”
“Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.”