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.
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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde
When a woman truly repents, she must go to a bad taylor, otherwise no one will believe her.
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She certainly has a wonderful faculty of remembering people's names and forgetting their faces.
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Women are a fascinatingly wilful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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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.
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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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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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