14 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Gender

Oscar Wilde quotes on gender

77. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

78. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.

95. 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.

102. A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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

143. The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

147. The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

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

160. Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

162. When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

164. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?

181. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

187. No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.

188. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?