Women are meant to be loved, not to be under-stood.

---The Sphinx Without a Secret.

Women -Sphinxes without secrets.

---A Woman of No Importance.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

---A Woman of No Importance.

It is perfectly brutal the way most women nowadays behave to men who are not their husbands.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

---A Woman of No Importance.

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!

---An Ideal Husband.

Good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so small, their interests are so petty.

---A Woman of No Importance.

She'll never love you unless you are always at her heels; women like to be bothered.

---Vera, or The Nihilists.

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

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.

---A Woman of No Importance.

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.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrender.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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

---A Woman of No Importance.

I don't believe in women thinking too much. Women should think in moderation, as they should do all things in moderation.

---A Woman of No Importance.

Women forgive adoration; that is quite as much as should be expected from them.

---A Woman of No Importance.

MRs.ALLONBY: We women adore failures. They lean on us.

---A Woman of No Importance.

She looks like a woman with a past. Most pretty women do.

---An Ideal Husband.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their

past.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least good women have not.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The one charm of the past is that it is past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

---A Woman of No Importance.

Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon not punish-ment, is their mission.

---An Ideal Husband.

Women are the most reliable as they have no memory for the important.

---Letter to Robert Ross written from Reading Prison.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is.

---In Conversation.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.

---The Importance of Being Earnest.

MRS. CHEVELEY: The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be? analysed and women…merely adored.

---An Ideal Husband.

Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as Humanity treats its Gods. They worship us and are always asking us to do something for them.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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.

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

---An Ideal Husband.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.

---The Duchess of Padua.

Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in small change.

---In Conversation.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces, and always prevent us from carrying them out.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

She was made to be an ambassador's wife. She certainly has a wonderful faculty of remembering people's names, and forgetting their faces.

---A Woman of No Importance.

I am sick of women who love me. Women who hate me are much more interesting.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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

---An Ideal Husband.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

---The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.

---Lady Windermere's Fan.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

---An Ideal Husband.

MISS PRISM: A misanthrope I can understand---a womanthrope, never!

---The Importance of Being Earnest.