Women Quotes by Oscar Wilde

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

— Oscar Wilde

All women are rebels.

— Oscar Wilde

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

— Oscar Wilde

Sphinxes without secrets.

— Oscar Wilde

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

— Oscar Wilde

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

— Oscar Wilde

“Women give to men the very gold of their loves.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

— Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

— Oscar Wilde

“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

— Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else…

— Oscar Wilde

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest…

— Oscar Wilde

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

— Oscar Wilde

“Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to…

— Oscar Wilde

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When…

— Oscar Wilde

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women…

— 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

When a woman marries againit is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored…

— Oscar Wilde

“Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole…

— Oscar Wilde

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They…

— Oscar Wilde

“LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of…

— Oscar Wilde

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

— 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

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”

— Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

— 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

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about…

— Oscar Wilde