Feminism Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Every woman is a rebel.

— Oscar Wilde

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

— Oscar Wilde

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

— Oscar Wilde

All women are rebels.

— Oscar Wilde

“Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

— Oscar Wilde

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”

— Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!”

— Oscar Wilde

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

— Oscar Wilde

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

— Oscar Wilde

“Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us…

— Oscar Wilde

“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say…

— Oscar Wilde

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and…

— Oscar Wilde

“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

— Oscar Wilde