No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Oscar WildePlain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Oscar WildeWell, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
Oscar WildeThere are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
Oscar Wilde