He’s entrammelled by this woman – fascinated by her – dominated by her. If a woman wants to hold a man, she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lady Windermere, Act 3.
We make gods of men and they leave us. Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lady Windermere, Act 3.
Living at the mercy of a woman who has neither mercy nor pity in her, a woman whom it is an infamy to meet, a degradation to know, a vile woman, a woman who comes between husband and wife! – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lady Windermere, Act 3.
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people’s. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cecil Graham, Act 3.
There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cecil Graham, Act 3.
In Funny In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mr. Dumby, Act 3.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cecil Graham and Lord Darlington, Act 3.
Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cecil Graham, Act 3.
You talk as if you had a heart. Women like you have no hearts. Heart is not in you. You are bought and sold. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lady Windermere, Act 3.
In Inspirational We are all in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lord Darlington, Act 3.
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mr. Dumby, Act 3.
History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cecil Graham, Act 3.
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cecil Graham, Act 3.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mr. Dumby, Act 3.
I prefer women with a past. They’re always so damned amusing to talk to. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lord Augustus Lorton, Act 3.
London is too full of fogs and – and serious people, Lord Windermere. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mrs. Erlynne, Act 4.
There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lady Windermere, Act 4.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mrs. Erlynne, Act 4.
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mrs. Erlynne, Act 4.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. – Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lady Windermere, Act 4.
