Quote

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Amount
Flirting
Simply
Husbands
Public
Washing
Women
Earnest
Flirtation
Looks
Perfectly
Flirty
London
Linen
Clean
Flirt
Husband
Scandalous

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Oscar Wilde
Image
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
Oscar Wilde
Image
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Oscar Wilde
Image
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
Oscar Wilde
Image
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
Oscar Wilde
Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde
Image
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
Oscar Wilde