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"Remember, prudent Basilio, it was the opinion of a certain sage, I know not whom, that there was only one good woman in the whole world. His advice was that each one should think and believe that this one good woman was his own wife, and in this way he would live happy."
     – Don Quixote, from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (544)

"I say a woman's advice is no great thing, but he who won't take it is a fool."
     – from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (459)

"As everyone knows, the beauty of some women has its times and its seasons and is increased or diminished by chance causes. Naturally, the emotions of the mind will heighten or impair it, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it."
     – from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (322)

"For however ugly we women may be, it seems to me it always pleases to hear ourselves called beautiful."
     – from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (213)

"That is the natural way of women, to scorn the one that loves them, and love the one that hates them."
     – Don Quixote to Sancho Panza, from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (135)

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."
     – Lord Henry to Lady Narborough, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (147)

"That awful thing, a woman's memory!"
     – Lord Henry, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (133)

"My dear Dorian, the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."
     – Lord Henry to Dorian Gray, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (81)

"...women were better suited to bear sorrow than men."
     – narrator (Dorian's thoughts?), from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (75)

"Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces, and always prevent us from carrying them out."
     – Lord Henry to Dorian Gray, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (65)

"...women give to men the very gold of their lives."
     – Dorian Gray to Lord Henry, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (64)

"Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as Humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."
     – Lord Henry to Basil Hallward and Dorian Gray, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (64)

"Women are wonderfully practical, much more practical than we are."
     – Lord Henry to Dorian Gray, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (62)

"Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders."
     – narrator, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (52)

"Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least, good women have not."
     – Lord Henry to Basil Hallward, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (11)