Oscar Wilde: Man (page 2)

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“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!”

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”

“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

“Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality

Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.”

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”

“Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.”

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”

“Do you smoke?

Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.

I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.”

“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”