Men and women Quotes by Oscar Wilde

13 Men and women quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde’s trademark wit shines through in thirteen brief observations about men and women. The brevity of each line lets his clever turn of phrase stand out, offering a quick dose of his sparkling commentary.

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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

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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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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

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A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end…

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“As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women.”

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“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love…

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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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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make…

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“As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow…

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

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“I remember once, in talking to Mr. Burne-Jones about modern science, his saying to me, ‘the more materialistic science becomes, the more…

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

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Anybody can be good in the country

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

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“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

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“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…

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