For those who don't know him:
Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Even more than 100 years later, most of his quotes hold true.
For your reading pleasure I've compiled a list of the best Oscar Wilde quotes on women and love.
Enjoy!
And to end it with a great one:
This man had swallowed the red pill ahead of his time.
Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Even more than 100 years later, most of his quotes hold true.
For your reading pleasure I've compiled a list of the best Oscar Wilde quotes on women and love.
Enjoy!
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters all the same. They love being dominated.
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You women live by your emotions and for them. You have no philosophy of life.
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You should never try to understand them. Women are pictures. Men are problems. If you want to know what a woman really means - which, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do -look at her, don't listen to her.
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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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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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But good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so small, their interests so petty.
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Men who are dandies and women who are darlings rule the world.
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Oh! Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the difference between them.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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What a typical woman you are! You talk sentimentally and you are thoroughly selfish the whole time.
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Women are a fascinatingly willful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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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.
And to end it with a great one:
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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.
This man had swallowed the red pill ahead of his time.