Oscar Wilde quotes on men and women

Oscar Wilde quote. Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance. Image copyright Ireland Calling

Oscar Wilde quote. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, Image copyright Ireland Calling

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

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

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

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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

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

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

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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

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

Oscar Wilde quote. Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Image copyright Ireland Calling

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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

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

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Oscar Wilde quote. Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance. Image copyright Ireland Calling

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde quote. The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. Image copyright Ireland Calling