Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon not punishment is their mission.
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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde
Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life. So, at least, I am always told at the club by people who are bald enough to know better. But no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds it out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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If a woman wants to hold a man, she has merely to appeal to the worst in him.
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Most women in London, nowadays, seem to furnish their rooms with nothing but orchids, foreigners, and French novels.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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All women have to fight with death to keep their children. Death, being childless, wants our children from us.
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A mother who doesn't part with a daughter every season has no real affection.
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