Men become old, but they never become good.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

---An Ideal Husband.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of man is great.

---The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Mrs. ALONBY: I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

---A Woman of No Importance.

I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability.

---In Conversation.

… one is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of his reason.

---The Critic as Artist.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

---In Conversation.

Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

A Woman of No Importance.

When a man acts he is a puppet. When he describes he is a poet.

---In Conversation.

What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

---The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

MRS. ALLONBY: Man, poor, awkward, reliable, necessary man belongs to a sex that has been rational for millions and millions of years. He can't help himself. It is in his race. The History of Woman is very different. We have always been picturesque protests against the mere existence of common sense. We saw its dangers from the first.

---A Woman of No Importance.

A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence, and a bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.

---A Woman of No Importance.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Mrs. ALLONBY: The Ideal Man….he should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

---A Woman of No Importance.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

---A Woman of No Importance.

He has one of those terribly weak natures that are not susceptible to influence.

---An Ideal Husband.

When men give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

Men who are trying to do something for the world, are always insufferable, when the world has done something for them, they are charming.

---In Conversation.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

---The Decay of Lying.