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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“Men have scars, women mysteries.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“Women will love her that she is a woman more worth than any man; men, that she is the rarest of all women.” William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Men's vows are women's traitors!” William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“It seems that some women love to be exploited. When they are not exploited, they exploit the man.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper.” Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“one girl is worth more than twenty boys.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.” William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“I like men who have a future and women who have a past” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.” Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“Thus while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Here's all you need to know about men and women: Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.” George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
“These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.” William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

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