Oscar Wilde Quotes Flashcards
Some cause _______; others whenever ______.
i. happiness wherever they go
ii. whenever
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she _____?
were a perfectly normal human being
Experience is ____
simply the name we give our mistakes.
No great artist ever ______. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
sees things as they really are
Men always want to be _____
a woman’s first love
Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to _____.
be a man’s last romance
Man is _________. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
is least himself when he talks in his own person
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him _____.
a mask, and he will tell you the truth
Success is a science; if you have the ___.
conditions, you get the result
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines ____.
what you will be when you can’t help it
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to ____.
know more, and be more, and to do more.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either ___.
charming or tedious
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he ___.
does not love her
____. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot
Fashion is a form of ____.
ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months
_____. That is what the world calls a romance.
Deceiving others.
All women become like their mothers. That ___. No man does. That’s his.
is their tragedy
What is a cynic? ___.
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will ___.
forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by ____.
blocking his retreat
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that ___.
others might pick them up
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we ___.
feel no one else has a right to blame us
Questions are never indiscreet, _____.
answers sometimes are
