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06/27/2026 ✍️Oscar Wilde✍️   Leave a comment

The First Big “O”

Today I thought I should step away from all of the excitement connected with the World Cup. The endless supply of Tik-Toker’s are doing a fine job of informing the world about the USA and I’m sincerely happy about that. Reality will return soon enough, so enjoy our time in the sun as best you can. Todays post is a collection of thoughts and opinions by one of my favorite writers and philosophers, Oscar Wilde. He was a figure both loved and hated due to his many writings and personal exploits. I’ve always appreciated his Irish sense of humor and skilled and vicious use of sarcasm. A warning for those of you (myself included) who wield the sharp sword of sarcasm at every turn. It’s always a hazardous hobby even on the good days. Let’s get started.

ON WOMEN

“American women are pretty and charming: little oases of elegant unreasonableness in a vast desert of practical common sense.”

“Women are meant to be loved, not understood.”

“A woman will flirt with anyone in the world, as long as other women are looking on.”

“I like men who have a future, and women who have a past.”

“If you really want to know what a women means, which is dangerous, always look at her but never listen.”

ON MEN

“Men become old, they never become good.”

“I sometime think that God, in creating man, rather overestimated his ability.”

“If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is likely to be bad for him.”

“A man can be happy with any woman, so long as he does not love her.”

ON LOVE & MARRIAGE

“London is full of women who trust their husbands; one can always recognize them because they look so thoroughly unhappy.”

“The only real tragedy in a woman’s life is that her past is always her lover, and her future is invariably her husband.”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman; it’s a thing that no married man knows anything about.”

“Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

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ONE OF MY FAVORITES

No great artist sees things as they really are; if he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

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I LOVE THIS GUY!