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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."— Oscar Wilde
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Meaning of this quote
The epigram plays with unequal social expectations about men's prospects and women's histories.
Key takeaway:
Notice the gender assumptions beneath the joke.
Origin of the quote
Collected in Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man.
Who actually said this?
VerifiedThe sentence appears in the consulted Wilde collection; the compilation alone does not establish its earliest publication.
