Oscar Wilde Quotes on Gender
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
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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.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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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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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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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.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
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And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?