Oscar Wilde Quotations Men and Women

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

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

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
 

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

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

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations.
 

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
 

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance.
 

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

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.
 

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

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

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