Quotes by British Authors - Page 640

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.
Caitlin Moran
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. Sayers
I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.
Horace Annesley Vachell
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
Zadie Smith
Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy," said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.
J.M. Barrie
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
Louis de Bernières
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Jane Austen
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Audrey Hepburn
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
Joseph Conrad
Don’t BELIEVE everything you read and see on the socialmedia! Don’t let LIKES & RT brainwash your mind, take control over your time and take you away from your life, family & responsibilities!
Lily Amis
If you surround yourself with people who don't care about you, be prepared for a life of misery.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
One twig at a time. Like a bird making a nest.
Carol Lovekin
reading is like life, it can take u on one WILD ride
Daisy Cook
Yesterday I bought myself a new, very sharp kitchen knife.And I managed to cut my finger within 5 minutes of getting home!Those plastic packages are bloody dangerous!!!
Gary Edward Gedall
The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
Virginia Woolf
Life can be whatever you wish it to be or become.
Steven Redhead
There is freedom within the potential to choose how to live life.
Steven Redhead
Life gives what you are prepared to pursue with a strong persistent intent.
Steven Redhead
Efficient control over what is experienced is necessary to live a life that is desirable.
Steven Redhead
Life can be moulded to suit individual desires.
Steven Redhead
Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended.
Steven Redhead
The best way to achieve a wonderful life is to have wonderful desires.
Steven Redhead
Choice is always the driving factor in life.
Steven Redhead
There are no free passes in life, outcomes will always mirror the input.
Steven Redhead
Life really can become whatever you are prepared to make it.
Steven Redhead
Life wasn't meant to be a trial, it was intended to be a wondrous joy.
Steven Redhead
How life progresses all depends on what you focus on then pursue.
Steven Redhead
Don't let the cares of the day interfere with living the life that you desire.
Steven Redhead
Control of what happens is the ultimate solution to life.
Steven Redhead
There is always the potential to advance and evolve in life.
Steven Redhead
There are no free tickets in life, there is always some cost in one form or another.
Steven Redhead
Life is all about balance, without which the seeds of chaos grow.
Steven Redhead
Make life a wonder to behold.
Steven Redhead
Life is an open book as far as potential is concerned.
Steven Redhead
Only what you willingly accept can continue to be part of your life.
Steven Redhead
Aim to live the life that gives you the most of what you want.
Steven Redhead
Capture the positive perspective of life.
Steven Redhead
Life is whatever you wish it to be or believe what it is or can become.
Steven Redhead
Only allow what contributes positively into your life.
Steven Redhead
What comes about by design or chance determine how life plays out.
Steven Redhead
Other people influence your life through their actions and thoughts.
Steven Redhead
Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily.
Steven Redhead
Every choice has the potential to change the course of a life.
Steven Redhead
Surprises are all part of life's journey.
Steven Redhead
There is rarely a chance for life to remain constant.
Steven Redhead
It's important not to waste life chasing after rainbows.
Steven Redhead
Life is far too short for any silly nonsense.
Steven Redhead
The story of life is to get out of this life what you came for.
Steven Redhead