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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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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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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 know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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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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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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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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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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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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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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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
Frances Burney
Oscar Wilde
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Born:
October 16, 1854
Died:
November 30, 1900
(aged 46)
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