Oscar Wilde - Woman Quotes

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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One pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.

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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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She wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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