I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

– Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian, Chapter 16. Dorian says this to Adrian Singleton in the opium den. There are plenty of women who hate Dorian at this stage. We heard in Chapter 11 how women who once wildly adored him "grow pallid with shame or horror if Dorian Gray entered the room." A lot of Wilde’s wit in the novel is given voice through the character of Lord Henry. But sometimes, as in the case of this epigram, the witty Wilde speaks through Dorian.