Quote #187
No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
- And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?
- However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
- Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.
- The only possible society is oneself.
- My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
- Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
- My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.