Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
8 quotes
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good."
"Lady Windermere: Windermere and I married for love.Duchess of Berwick: Yes, we begin like that. It was only Berwick's brutal and incessant threats of suicide that made me accept him at all, and before the year was out, he was running after all kinds of petticoats, every colour, every shape, every material."
"Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better."
"I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
"Experience is a question of instinct about life."
"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes."
"Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue."