The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.
In the case of very fascinating women, sex is a challenge, not a defence.
Who, being loved, is poor?
The well bred contradict other people and the wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
Those who have much are often greedy.
All influence is negative... but there is nothing worse than a positive one.
There is no sin except stupidity.