Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. - Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. - Oscar Wilde
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. - Oscar Wilde
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. - Oscar Wilde
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. - William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. - William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. - William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! - William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare