Oscar Wilde - Women Quotes

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Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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CHILTERN: You think science cannot grapple with the problem of women?
CHEVELEY: Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
CHILTERN: And women represent the irrational.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...

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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

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

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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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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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