Face Quotes
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
"A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction."— Oscar Wilde
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Meaning of this quote
The quip contrasts visible experience with deliberate self-presentation using gendered stereotypes. It reflects a period joke rather than a factual rule about faces.
Key takeaway:
Question the assumptions behind a polished appearance.
Origin of the quote
Reported as Wilde’s remark in H. Montgomery Hyde’s Oscar Wilde: A Biography (1975).
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedA later scholarly article cites the biography, but the underlying contemporary witness or document was not established in this review.
