Oscar Wilde: Man

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

“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.”

“An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.”

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”