Oscar Wilde - Women Quotes

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.

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

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

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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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Lord Illingworth: Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
Mrs. Allonby: Or the want of it in the man.

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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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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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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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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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