“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.”
“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. 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.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Ballads and Poems (1910), " C. L. M. http://theotherpages.org/poems/masef01.html"
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“As the French say, there are three sexes, — men, women, and clergymen.”
Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)