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Oscar Wilde — Portrait after a picture by Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

1854–1900

173 quotes, most often on Marriage, Love and Comedy. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.
- Men
- Women
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
- Women
Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
- Women
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
- Forgiveness
- Women
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
- Women
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)In context
- Age
- Women
Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
- Men
- Women
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Age
- Women

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