Women are made to be loved, not understood.

About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent among them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resorting to physical strength?

—Barbara Deming

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

—Washington Irving

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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

—J. M. Barrie

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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

—Groucho Marx

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