WOMAN

Related Subjects: Beauty, Coquetry, Man, Sexes

1. If we mean to have heroes, statesman and philosophers, we should have learned women.—ABIGAIL ADAMS, Brooks: Flowering of New England
   

2. The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

3. The woman that deliberates is lost.—ADDISON, Cato
   

4. Too lightly opened are a woman's ears;
   Her fence downtrod by many trespassers.—AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon
   

5. Ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?—Apocrypha: I Esdras
   

6. With women the heart argues, not the mind.—MATTHEW ARNOLD, Merope
   

7. Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.—GERTRUDE ATHERTON, The Conqueror
   

8. No matter how hard a man may labour, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.—GERTRUDE ATHERTON, The Conqueror
   

9. It is folly to tell women truth!
   They would rather live on lies, so they be sweet.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, The Devil's Advice on Lovemaking
   

10. There are feelings which women guess in spite of the care men take to bury them.—BALZAC, Colonel Chabert
    

11. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.—JOHN BARRYMORE
    

12. Women, deceived by men, want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge as good as any other.—BEAUMANOIR
    

13. It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.—Bible, Proverbs 21:9
    

14. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious Woman are alike.—Bible, Proverbs 27:15
    

15. Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.—AMBROSE BIERCE, Epigrams
    

16. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.—AMBROSE BIERCE, Epigrams
    

17. It would be interesting to figure out just how many foot-pounds of energy men have saved themselves, since the creation of the world, by keeping up the pretense that a special knack is required for washing dishes and for dusting, and that the knack is wholly feminine.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Holding a Baby
    

18. It is not easy for any woman to lose her identity in the shadow of a great man and it is worse when she has to play a supporting role to a husband of distinctly minor quality.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Wife of Lot
    

19. A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
    

20. Auld Nature swears the lovely dears
    Her noblest work she classes, O;
    Her 'prentice han' she tried on man,
    And then she made the lasses, O!—BURNS, Green Grow the Rashes
    

21. Women wear the breeches.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
    

22. I heard a man say that brigands demand your money or your life, whereas women require both.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Note Books
    

23. Her stature tall,—I hate a dumpy woman.—BYRON, Don Juan
    

24. The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
    And man, the hermit, sigh'd—till woman smiled.—THOMAS CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope
    

25. The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears On her back.—DALE CARNEGIE, How to Win Friends
    

26. Demonstrations of love are never altogether displeasing to women, and the most disdainful, in spite of all their coyness, reserve a little complaisance in their hearts for their admirers.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

27. What man has assurance enough to pretend to know thoroughly the riddles of a woman's mind, and who could ever hope to fix her mutable nature?—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

28. There is no proved intellectual inferiority in woman, or any evidence for delimiting her activities to a specific sphere.—STUART CHASE, Are Radicals Crazy!
    

29. We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman.—COLLEY CIBBER, Love's Last Shift
    

30. The wind and clouds, now here, now there,
    Hold no such strange dominion
    As woman's cold, perverted will,
    And soon estranged opinion.—JOHN CLARE, When Lovers Part
    

31. No woman is ever completely deceived.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes
    

32. The Woman tempted me—and tempts me still!
    Lord God, I pray You that she ever will!—E. V. COOKE, Adam
    

33. American women have the best figures, French women have the most charm, and Italian women the most vivacity.—EVE CURIE
    

34. Woman, the creature of an hour.—DANTE, Purgatory
    

35. There is something about a roused woman, especially if she add to all her other strong passions, the fierce impulses of recklessness and despair, which few men like to provoke.—DICKENS, Oliver Twist
    

36. She's the ornament of her sex.—DICKENS, The Old Curiosity Shop
    

37. In a word, I have never yet been able to find one consideration, one argument, or suggestion in favor of man's right to participate in civil government which did not equally apply to the right of woman.—FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Autobiography
    

38. She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offence:
    Sex to the last.—DRYDEN, Cymon & Iphigenia
    

39. It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she will prevent us from accomplishing.—DUMAS
    

40. I'm not denying the women are foolish: God Almighty, made 'em to match the men.—GEORGE ELIOT
    

41. Though little dangers they may fear,
    When greater dangers men environ
    Then women show a front of iron;
    And, gentle in their manner, they
    Do bold things in a quiet way.—THOMAS ENGLISH, Betty Zane
    

42. Woman is woman's natural ally.—EURIPIDES, Alope
    

43. O woman, perfect woman! what distraction
    Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!—JOHN FLETCHER, Monsieur Thomas
    

44. Though woman never can be man,
    By change of sex and a' that,
    To social rights, 'gainst class and clan,
    Her claim is just, for a' that,
    For a' that, and a' that,
    Her Eden slip, and a' that,
    In all that makes a living soul
    She matches man, for a' that.—W. L. GARRISON, An Autograph
    

45. 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind;
    By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.—JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
    

46. The Eternal Feminine draws us on.—GOETHE, Faust
    

47. Women are our subconscious selves,
    Materializations from our souls.—O. ST. J. GOGARTY
    

48. A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.—GOLDSMITH, She Stoops to Conquer
    

49. When lovely woman stoops to folly,
    And finds too late that men betray,
    What charm can soothe her melancholy?
    What art can wash her guilt away.—GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
    

50. Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.—HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter
    

51. Ermined and minked and Persianlambed,
    Be-puffed (be-painted, too, alas!)
    Be-decked, be-diamonded—bedamned!
    The women of the better class.—OLIVER HERFORD, The Women of the Better Class
    

52. Oh woman, woman ! when to ill thy mind
    Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.—HOMER, Odyssey
    

53. A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.—IBSEN,
    A Doll's House: Notes
    

54. There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.—IBSEN, A Doll's House: Notes
    

55. Sir, nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
    

56. I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty; I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
    

57. The endearing elegance of f e-male friendship.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
    

58. Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfil
    The entire and holiest end of woman's being.—FRANCES KEMBLE, Woman's Heart
    

59. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!—KIPLING, Plain Tales
    

60. Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste
    And the work of our head and hand
    Belong to the woman who did not know .. .
    And did not understand.—KIPLING, The Vampire
    

61. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.—KIPLING, The Female of the Species
    

62. The first proof a man gives of his interest in a woman is by talking to her about his own sweet self. If the woman listens without yawning, he begins to like her. If she flatters the animal's vanity, he ends by adoring her.—KIPLING, Under the Deodars
    

63. An' I learned about women from 'er.—KIPLING, The Ladies
    

64. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.—KIPLING, Plain Tales
    

65. O men, respect women who have borne you.—The Koran
    

66. As unto the bow the cord is,
    So unto the man is woman,
    Though she bends him, she obeys him,
    Though she draws him, yet she follows,
    Useless each without the other!—LONGFELLOW, The Song of Hiawatha
    

67. I'm opposed to women drivers on moral grounds.—CHIEF OF POLICE MCCLELLAND, Long Beach, Cal.
    

68. The females of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.—DON MARQUIS, A Farewell
    

69. A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.—SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Moon and Sixpence
    

70. A woman is necessarily an evil, and he is a lucky man who catches her in the mildest form.—MENANDER
    

71. In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
    For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
    

72. Ladies, whose bright eyes
    Rain influence, and judge the prize.—MILTON, L'Allegro
    

73. My only books
    Were woman's looks,
    And folly's all they've taught me.—THOMAS MOORE, The Time I've Lost in Wooing
    

74. Nature intended women to be our slaves; and it is only because of our distorted outlooks that they venture to describe themselves as our rulers. .. . What a mad idea to demand equality for women! They are our property, we are not theirs. They belong to us, just as a tree which bears fruit belongs to the gardener.—NAPOLEON, Ludwig: Napoleon
    

75. In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.—NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good & Evil
    

76. God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment—but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.—NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
    

77. O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
    To temper man: we had been brutes without you.—THOMAS OTWAY, Venice Preserved
    

78. What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
    Who wast betrayed the Capital?—
    A woman!
    Who lost Mark Antony the world?—
    A woman !
    Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
    And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—
    Woman!
    Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!—THOMAS OTWAY, The Orphan
    

79. It is a great consolation to reflect that, among all the bewildering changes to which the world is subject, the character of woman cannot be altered.—COVENTRY PATMORE, Bad Morality Is Bad Art
    

80. Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
    But every woman is at heart a rake.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

81. Most women have no characters at all.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

82. Woman's at best a contradiction still.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

83. Let women spin, and not preach.—Proverb
    

84. Women conceal all that they know not.—Proverb
    

85. Women in mischief are wiser than men.—Proverb
    

86. A woman that loves to be at the window, is like a bunch of grapes on the highway.—Proverb
    

87. A woman is to be from her house three times; when she is christened, married and buried.—Proverb
    

88. For when a woman is left too much alone,
    Sooner or later she begins to think;
    And no man knows what then she may discover.—E. A. ROBINSON, Tristram
    

89. Women and elephants never forget an injury.—SAKI, Reginald
    

90. You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.—ARTHUR SCHNITZLER, Anatole
    

91. O woman! in our hours of ease,
    Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
    And variable as the shade
    By the light quivering aspen made;
    When pain and anguish wring the brow,
    A ministering angel thou!—SCOTT, Marmion
    

92. A woman is a dish for the gods.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
    

93. Do you not know I am a woman?
    When I think, I must speak.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

94. Frailty, thy name is woman!—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

95. One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

96. O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

97. She's beautiful and therefore to he wooed,
    She is a woman, therefore to be won.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

98. How hard it is for women to keep counsel.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

99. There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

100. A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
     

101. For where is any author in the world
     Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
     Learning is but an adjunct for ourself.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
     

102. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive;
     They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
     They are the books, the arts, the academes,
     That show, contain, and nourish all the world.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
     

103. The pleasing punishment that women bear.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
     

104. We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
     We should be woo'd and were not made to woo.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
     

105. Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
     Was ever woman in this humour won?—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
     

106. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
     Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
     

107. Let still the woman take
     An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
     So sways she level in her husband's heart;
     For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
     Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
     More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
     Than women's are.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
     

108. I have no other but a woman's reason;
     I think him so, because I think him so.—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
     

109. Have you not heard it said full oft,
     A woman's nay doth stand for naught?—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
     

110. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.—BERNARD SHAW, Pygmalion
     

111. A woman should be seen, not heard.—SOPHOCLES, Ajax
     

112. What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
     When strong affection stirs her spirit up?—SOUTHEY, Madoc in Wales
     

113. A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.—STENDHAL
     

114. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.—JAMES STEPHENS, The Crock of Gold
     

115. Something depressing comes on the mind when it has been too extensively occupied with the female sex.—JAMES STEPHENS, In the Land of Youth
     

116. Women are the baggage of life: they are
     Troublesome, and hinder us in the great march.
     And yet we cannot be without 'em.—SIR JOHN SUCKLING, The Tragedy of Brennoralt
     

117. Woman is the lesser man.—TENNYSON, Locksley Hall
     

118. For men at most differ as heaven and earth,
     But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
     

119. I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.—TERENCE, Eunuchus
     

120. The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.—THACKERAY, The Virginians
     

121. Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.—THACKERAY, The Virginians
     

122. When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do what you like now."—TOLSTOY, Diary
     

123. A woman changes when she loves and is loved. When there is nobody who cares for her she loses her spirits and the charm is gone. Love draws out what is in her and on it her development decidedly depends.
     
     Nature must have its free course, must go its normal way; what a woman wants is to be with one man and with him forever. That is not always possible, but when it is otherwise it is against nature.—VAN GOGH, Letters
     

124. Blonde or brunette, this rhyme applies,
     Happy is he who knows them not.—FRANCOIS VILLON, The Greater Testament
     

125. If woman lost us Eden, such
     As she alone restore it.—WHITTIER, Among the Hills
     

126. Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.—OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
     

127. All women used to be owned by men. Formerly they ruled us by physical force-now by financial force.—JESSE L. WILLIAMS, Why Marry?
     

128. The reason firm, the temperate will,
     Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
     A perfect woman, nobly planned,
     To warn, to comfort, and command.—WORDSWORTH, She Was a Phantom of Delight