Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Source: Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No Importance, act 3.
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.