Retreat Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Retreat
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“When a woman tells you to 'Go ahead,' you do not, under any circumstances go ahead. You retreat to a safe distance and observe… — L.A. Casey Copy Share Image
The resistance of a woman to a mans advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes its just a sign of experience. — Ninon De Lenclos Copy Share Image
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding. — Laozi Copy Share Image
A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts. — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I have a place in New England. It's in the middle of nowhere, like horror movie style - Stephen King-ville. It's a good kind… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven. I want… — Anna White Copy Share Image
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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