"Women, as some witty Frenchman once put..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
More by Oscar Wilde
“I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.”
“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
“Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.”
More on Women
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”
“You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.”
More on Creativity
“The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.”
“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”
“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”