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For those who don't know him:

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Even more than 100 years later, most of his quotes hold true.

For your reading pleasure I've compiled a list of the best Oscar Wilde quotes on women and love.

Enjoy!

Quote:Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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

Quote:Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

Quote:When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Quote:A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Quote:I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters all the same. They love being dominated.

Quote:You women live by your emotions and for them. You have no philosophy of life.

Quote:You should never try to understand them. Women are pictures. Men are problems. If you want to know what a woman really means - which, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do -look at her, don't listen to her.

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

Quote: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.

Quote:A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions.

Quote:Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

Quote:Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Quote:But good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so small, their interests so petty.

Quote:Men who are dandies and women who are darlings rule the world.

Quote:Oh! Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the difference between them.

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

Quote:What a typical woman you are! You talk sentimentally and you are thoroughly selfish the whole time.

Quote:Women are a fascinatingly willful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Quote:One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Quote:How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Quote:Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

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

And to end it with a great one:

Quote: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.

This man had swallowed the red pill ahead of his time.

Post: #2

amazing quotes, many of these concepts I am still trying to wrap my head around them. The fact that he was thinking this way 100+ years ago proves that womens' inexplicable behavior is not just a product of our modern society, there is biology and eons of history driving it as well.

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He was gay wasn't he?

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Yes, he was gay. I think he was inprisoned for sodomy.

And these are just his quotes about women, he had tons of quotes on other topics also

My fave:
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"

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he might have been gay, but he made keen observations about lizards.

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My favorite quote from him

'Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.' - Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde was a cool dude, despite the gay part, and these are very thought-provoking and wise quotes.

One of the best which I think you missed was this one.

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

However these are not new opinions. The ancient Greeks would have listened and agreed with every one of these quotes. Plato compared the body to women in that it represents opinions and images but not true knowledge, whereas he compared the soul to men in that it represents knowledge and eternal truth.

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He would probably be considered Bi...he was married and had kids...but that could all be just for the elaborate cover.

I recommend that every man read "The Picture of Dorian Gray". One of the most influential books in my life.

Two of his plays that I have read "The Importance of Being Earnest", and "An Ideal Husband"are also good and entertaining. But nothing is on the level of Dorian Gray.

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One of my favorite writers, definitely, and the father of many excellent quotes as seen above.

Ironically, in De Profundis he has a few paragraphs chastising people in general for "being some other people's reflections and having some other people's thoughts". I wonder what he would have thought about the mass quotation that he is experiencing in this century.

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"The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."

A Woman of No Importance

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It's hilarious how many females post quotes from him, yet have no idea about the quotes above.

Post: #12

(04-15-2014 09:40 AM)Horus Wrote:  However these are not new opinions. The ancient Greeks would have listened and agreed with every one of these quotes. Plato compared the body to women in that it represents opinions and images but not true knowledge, whereas he compared the soul to men in that it represents knowledge and eternal truth.

That stands to reason. In his younger years Wilde studied Greek language at Oxford and won awards for translations.

Post: #13

Who gives a shit if he was gay? He was also one of the wittiest, most engaging writers in all of human history. The Portrait of Dorian Grey is one of the best books I have ever read.

Either Wilde or Voltaire was the wittiest person to ever live. Christopher Hitchens was definitely up there too.

My favorite Wilde quote: "If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you."

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Wilde was a legend. Winston Churchill was another Brit who had amazing one-liners. The most commonly quoted obviously the one where he is a bit drunk at a party and a woman says to him: "Sir, you are drunk." to which he answers: "And madam you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning."

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(04-15-2014 12:23 PM)Bad Hussar Wrote:  Wilde was a legend. Winston Churchill was another Brit who had amazing one-liners. The most commonly quoted obviously the one where he is a bit drunk at a party and a woman says to him: "Sir, you are drunk." to which he answers: "And madam you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning."

At a 1912 dinner party in Blenheim Palace—the Churchill family estate—Lady Astor became annoyed at an inebriated Winston Churchill, who was pontificating on some topic. Unable to take any more, she finally blurted out, “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee.” Without missing a beat, Churchill replied:

“Nancy, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”

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The best film of his life is the one from 1960 called 'The Trials of Oscar Wilde' starring Peter Finch. Last I checked - it was very hard to get hold of on DVD.

This is the best scene from the film:

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''When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve'' pretty much gamin in a nutshell

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(04-15-2014 12:10 PM)Farmageddon Wrote:  Who gives a shit if he was gay? He was also one of the wittiest, most engaging writers in all of human history. The Portrait of Dorian Grey is one of the best books I have ever read.

Either Wilde or Voltaire was the wittiest person to ever live. Christopher Hitchens was definitely up there too.

My favorite Wilde quote: "If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you."

One reason he was such a good observer of male-female relations was because he was gay, actually. He had no horse in the race, so he could sit back and observe the battle of the sexes as if it was spectacle.

His comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a good example of this -- and still considered one of the greatest plays in the English language.

The media likes to present us with a series of Blue Pill, feminist-loving gay men, but in real life, I've found there are quite a few gay men who wax as cynical about women as Oscar Wilde and make no apologies.

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(04-15-2014 12:50 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  His comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a good example of this -- and still considered one of the greatest plays in the English language.

I loved the film version of that with Rupert Everett, Colin Firth & Reese Witherspoon.

Quote:Lady Bracknell: 35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained 35 for years.

Quote:Miss Prism: Do you mind if I take your picture?
Cecily: No, I often like to be looked at.

Quote:Jack: I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Algy: Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

Absolutely slays me.

Post: #20

Anyone interested in Oscar Wilde beyond the published works (plays, witticisms, essays, and novel (Dorian Gray)) should get the following biography:

http://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Wilde-Richar...0394759842

Ellman spent years researching this book. The biography is as well-written as it is detailed.

Wilde's rise and fall from fame is fascinating. He was a relatively young man when he gained a prominent place in London society and toured the US giving lectures on aestheticism. To go from those heights to common late 1800's English prison makes for a compelling story.

Dude's whole dandyish vibe was so far ahead of its time. He had more game than Parker Brothers. The cool thing that the book shows is that - while he was no doubt a genius - how much work Wilde put in behind the scenes to make everything seem effortless.

An example: Upon arriving at Oxford from Ireland, Wilde was ridiculed a certain lilt in his speaking voice on account of his Irish accent. He immediately worked to change this so as to avoid being looked on as "provincial." Also, to get his plays put on he basically had to run game on prominent actresses of the time. As you can imagine, the book has a lot of good quotes. Well worth a read if you're interested....

Post: #21

These quote are the best. Although he was gay he still had masculinity and traditional masculine wisdom on the sexes (redpill). Of course all of his work is great in my opinion.