12 Oscar Wilde quotes about women and alcohol

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The esthete, playwright and poet appreciated sincerity and knew a lot about sarcasm.

Oscar Wilde is one of the most famous writers of the late 19th century. Many people know him from the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", but besides him there were many stories, plays, poems and poems. Throughout his work, there was a love of aesthetics and modernism, but at the same time the author was distinguished by his directness and an excellent sense of humor. Here are some quotes from Wilde that demonstrate this perfectly.

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I hope you are not pretending to be an immoral woman when you are actually a virtuous woman? That would be unforgivable hypocrisy.

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It is very dangerous to meet a woman who fully understands you. This usually ends in marriage.

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After the first glass you see things in pink, after the second - in a distorted one, and then - in their true light, and this is the worst thing that can be.

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Labor is the curse of the drinking class.

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There are abysses in which you want to gaze endlessly, one of them is a woman's neckline.

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The main harm of marriage is that it eradicates selfishness from a person. And unselfish people are colorless, they lose their individuality.

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Only a really good woman can do a really stupid thing.

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If we men were to marry the women we are standing, it would be bad for us!

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Women are in a much more advantageous position than men: there are more prohibitions for them.

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Women have an amazing instinct: they are able to detect anything except the obvious.

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Nothing hinders romance more than a woman's sense of humor and a man's lack of it.

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Men marry out of weariness, women marry out of curiosity. For both, marriage is disappointing.