(239 quotes found)
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
Oscar Wilde
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
“The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.”
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
