Men and women Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men and women
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by 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
“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
[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
A lady has every right to defend herself against unsought advances. And creatures of the night. — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding. — Laozi 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
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 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
“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in the early… — Joseph Loconte Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“I like men and women who don't fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Alvar de Campos calls them, strangers in this place… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Relationships are never more important than your own self worth and if you don't have that then any relationship is worthless. — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Faced with armed men and women and stuck in theater seats while things exploded right outside, the audience tended more toward terror than analysis.” — Elliott Kay Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image