Creative Quotations from Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900) born on Oct 16

Anglo-Irish "playwright, novelist". "He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895."

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Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

"Ah well, I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means."

"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women. . . merely adored."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Mr. Erskine, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 3 (1891)."
R:	"Mrs. Cheveley, in "An Ideal Husband," act 1."
A:	"Mrs. Cheveley, in "An Ideal Husband," act 3"
N:	On being told the cost of an operation.
K:	"Mrs. Cheveley, in The Ideal Husband, act 1."