The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
More Quotes from Oscar Wilde:
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.Oscar Wilde
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognise them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
Oscar Wilde
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
Oscar Wilde
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Oscar Wilde
Life Life Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit . . .
Oscar Wilde
Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
Oscar Wilde
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Life Quotes, Woman QuotesCinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
Gerard Debreu
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo