Oscar Wilde's Opinion on Love

" My dear boy, the people who love once in their lives are really the shallow people"

I disagree with this. I think that people who love more than once are really their shallow people.

Oscar Wilde's Opinion on women

" My dear boy, no woman is a genius, women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."
Page 64, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I do not agree with this quote because women can be very smart. There are plenty of women in the world that are smarter than men.

The Preface

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are cultivated.