Women Quotes - Page 2

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

Charles M. Schwab

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Anonymous

There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Euripides

The society of women is the foundation of good manners.

Goethe

Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.

Rémy de Gourmont

Women forgive injuries but never forget slights.

Thomas Haliburton

The crown of creation.

Herdeb

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling

An' I learned about women from 'er.

Rudyard Kipling

The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

Rudyard Kipling

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

Rudyard Kipling

There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.

Jean de La Bruyère

Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.

James Russell Lowell

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Too fair to worship too divine to love.

Henry Hart Milman

Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.

Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Bible

The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.

Anonymous

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think feel experience with a man they are in love with is still very small.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Men know that women are an overmatch for them and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean splendid and sordid infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme as great as a man some think even better.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful and it's best to take the gesture the shadow of the branch and let the mind create the tree.

William Faulkner

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of and feeling toward women and Negroes we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."

Anonymous

Oh the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Anonymous

Women always have some mental reservation.

Louis Ferdinand Destouches

You see dear it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was really made from his funny bone.

Sir James Matthew Barrie

In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.

A woman is like your shadow follow her she flies fly from her she follows.

Sebastien Chamfort

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

Men say of women what pleases them! women do with men what pleases them.

De Segur

Cbercbez lafemme. (Find the woman.)

Alexander Dumas

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Women are most adorable when they are afraid that's why they frighten so easily.

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

Some women blush when they are kissed some call for the police some swear some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

Anonymous

What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?

Susan B. Anthony

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Compton Mackenzie

When a woman dressjBS up for an occasion the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

Woman's place is in the wrong.

There are no ugly women only lazy ones.

Helena Rubinstein

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

I dress for women - and I undress for men.

Angle Dickinson

She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.

Whether they give or refuse women are glad to have been asked.

Ovid

One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

La Rochefoucauld

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