Oscar Wilde Man Quotations

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

No gentleman ever has any money.

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.

One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.

He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her

What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Life is too short to learn German

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact

The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.

A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

Bad manners make a journalist.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die