Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Weitere Zitate von Oscar Wilde
Zum Autor"I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets."
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."
"Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that."
"Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes."
"Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gold. I will come either Wednesday or Thursday night to your rooms. Send me a line. Bosie is so tired: he lies like a hyacinth on the sofa, and I worship him. (letter from Oscar Wilde, 1892 - quoted from Love in a dark time by Colm Toibin)."
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."