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…”ABOUT WOMEN”
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WIT... With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
... where you can cherry-pick the grapes of wisdom! Don’t get Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), British writer
bogged down in a quotations book that weighs a ton. The Famous A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from
Quotes Gurus squeeze the best of the best into the palm of your
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matrimony in a moment. Oliver Wendell
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Notes on quotes...
There’s a great woman behind every idiot.
• Often the quote was spoken by a character in the author’s John Lennon (1941-1980), British rock musician and
written work, rather than by the author directly. founding member of The Beatles
• A female character’s quote may be written by a male author,
and vice-versa. In fact, these are some of the sharpest! Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay
personified!
• A quote by a film actor was probably written by a screenplay
Plautus (254-184 BC), Roman playwright
writer, not the actor who is remembered for it.
The Braggart Warrior (205 BC)
• On translations (esp. ancient languages and medieval English),
we’ve made some minor changes in capitalization, punctuation Billy, it’s the 21st century. It’s the woman’s job to
and spacing. So, your literature teacher may freak out, but hey, save the day.
carpe diem, dude! [Seize the day, Horace (65-8 BC), Roman poet.] Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty), Charmed (1998)
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Why are women... so much more interesting to Women are always eagerly on the lookout
men than men are to women? for any emotion.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist and writer Henri Beyle Stendhal (1783-1842), French novelist and writer
Men live by forgetting -- women live on memories. A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), US-born British poet, playwright Washington Irving (1783-1859), US writer and historian
No woman should ever be quite accurate about It is a statistically impossible for a 16-year-old
Ralph Waldo her age. It looks so calculating. girl to unplug her phone.
Emerson Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
(1803-1882), US playwright, and novelist, The Importance
Do you not know I am a woman?
poet and writer. of Being Earnest (1895)
When I think, I must speak.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet.
As You Like It (1599)

A WOMAN'S STRENGTH
IS THE UNRESISTIBLE MIGHT A woman prefers a man without money
OF WEAKNESS. to money without a man.
Greek proverb
Women never reason, and therefore they are
I think I could be a
(comparatively) seldom wrong.
good woman if I had five thousand a year.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British writer
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British novelist
Vanity Fair A woman is always buying something.
Ovid (43 BC-17 AD ), Roman poet
That’s the nature of women, not to love when we
love them, and to love when we love them not. In their first passion women love their lovers,
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, playwright in all the others they love love.
Don Quixote (1605) François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer
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Women and elephants never forget an injury Womankind; Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916), Scottish writer Virgil (70-19 BC), Roman poet, Aeneid (19 BC)
I should like to know what is the proper function The females of all species are most dangerous
of women, if it is not to make reasons for when they appear to retreat.
husbands to stay at home, and still stronger Don Marquis (1878-1937), US newspaperman and humorist
reasons for bachelors to go out. One is not born a woman, Nancy Witcher
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880), one becomes one. Astor (1879-
British novelist Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), 1964), US-born
The average woman sees only the weak points in French writer British politician.
a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), US businessman and writer.
It’s a full time job keeping one woman happy. I MARRIED BENEATH ME --
Anonymous ALL WOMEN DO.
Who loves not wine, woman and song;
Remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German founder of Lutheranism From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good
parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs
Girls are so queer you never know what they
good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she
mean. They say No when they mean Yes,
needs a good personality. From fifty-five on,
and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
she needs good cash.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), US novelist, Little Women (1868)
Sophie Tucker (1884-1966), Russian-born US singer
Kings, women, and creeping vines as a rule
Women never use their intelligence -- except
embrace whatever is beside them.
when they need to prop up their intuition.
Panchatantra (c. 450 AD), collection of Sanskrit fables
Jacques Deval (1894-1972), French playwright
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When women kiss it always reminds one of Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
prize-fighters shaking hands. Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), US newspaperman and writer William Congreve (1670-1729), British playwright
Get with the times Greg, there’s a new thing The Mourning Bride (1697). Often misquoted as “Hell hath no
called Women’s Lib. It means women get fury like a woman scorned.”
everything they want. A woman can be anything that the man who
Marcia (Christine Taylor), A Very Brady Sequel (1996) loves her would have her be.
All you can do is to love them; J.M. Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish playwright and novelist
but never try to understand them. I’d be equally as willing, For a dentist to be
Anonymous drilling, Than to ever let a woman in my life.
Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986), US songwriter, My Fair Lady
A WOMAN'S GUESS Brigands demand your money or your life;

IS MUCH MORE ACCURATE women require both.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British writer
THAN A MAN'S CERTAINTY.
A woman, the more curious she is about her face,
is commonly the more careless about her house.
Rudyard Kipling Ben Jonson (1573-1637), British playwright and poet
(1865-1936) Women speak two languages,
Indian-born one of which is verbal. It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy
English writer, Steve Rubenstein, US writer. the promise of a man, but one can almost always
poet. see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
Men their rights and nothing more;
Alexander Fils Dumas (1824-1895), French writer
women their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), A woman's place is in the home.
US editor and women’s rights worker Proverb
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The great question… Which I have not been able Women are very practical. Even Ingrid Bergman,
to answer, despite my thirty years of research into which is why she gets on the plane at the end
the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?” of the movie.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychoanalyst Sally (Meg Ryan), When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Alas! The love of Women! It is known to be a
Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown. lovely and a fearful thing.
John Donne (1572-1631), British poet Lord Byron (1788-1824), British poet, Don Juan (1819)
A woman seldom asks advice until she has
bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British writer I NEVER HATED A MAN ENOUGH
So you’re the little woman who wrote the book TO GIVE HIM DIAMONDS BACK.
that made this great war!

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US statesman (Republican president
1861-1865). Remark when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer Zsa Zsa Gabor
of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), regarding the Civil War Where’s the man could ease (1919- )
a heart; Like a satin gown. Hungarian-born
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition,
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), US writer US actress.
believe me. It’s the one thing women care about
and there's no woman so proud that she doesn’t What a woman says to an eager lover,
rejoice at heart in her conquests. write it on running water, write it on air.
Moliére (pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673), Catullus (84-54 BC), Roman poet
French playwright
A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun,
A woman does not spend all her time in buying tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her
things; she spends part of it in taking them back. eyes and say to you, “No, it is night.”
Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937), US journalist and novelist Émile Gaboriau (1835-1873), French writer
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, From a timid, shy girl I had become a woman of
beginning in revelations and ending up in small resolute character, who could not longer be
talk without loss of esteem. frightened by the struggle with troubles.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Irish writer Anna Dostoevsky (1846-1918), Russian writer
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others -- (wife of novelist Fedor Dostoevsky)
you can always tell the others by their A woman’s work is never done.
hunted expression. Proverb
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer
If a handsome woman allows that another woman
Bhartrihari Woman loves or hates; is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
(c.650 AD) she knows no middle course. Jean de La Bruyére (1645-1696), French writer
Hindu poet. Syrus (c.50 BC), Roman playwright
Women generally consider consequences in love,
seldom in resentment.
A WOMAN TALKS TO ONE MAN, Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), British writer and clergyman
LOOKS AT A SECOND, Women are never stronger than when they arm
AND THINKS OF A THIRD. themselves with their weaknesses.
Marquise Du Deffand (1697-1780), French noblewoman
A woman needs a man, The difficulty of course is that I like women.
like a fish needs a bicycle. It is only wives I am in trouble with.
Gloria Steinem (1934- ), US feminist, writer John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your
over one reason than another; they cherish good sense with the fascinations of her shape.
themselves most where they are most wrong. It's your barn she's after.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French writer Hesiod (8th century BC), Greek poet
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I know the disposition of women: when you will, She wavers, she hesitates: in a word,
they won’t; when you won't, they set their hearts she is a woman.
upon you of their own inclination. Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright
Terence (195-159 BC), Roman playwright, The Eunuch (161 BC)
Once a woman has given you her heart you can
Women see through each other, never get rid of the rest of her.
but they rarely look into themselves. John Vanburgh (1664-1726), British architect and writer
Theodor Reik (1888-1969), Austrian-born US psychologist
We don’t love a woman for what she says,
How a little love and good company we like what she says because we love her.
improves a woman! André Maurois (1885-1967), French biographer and writer
George Farquhar (1678-1707), Irish playwright
One tongue is sufficient for a woman.
Woman’s at best a contradiction still. John Milton (1608-1674), British poet Tallulah
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet Response when asked if he’d let his Bankhead
daughters learn foreign languages. (1903-1968),
There is no fury like a woman searching
for a new lover. US actress.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British writer
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971), US writer ONLY GOOD GIRLS KEEP DIARIES.
BAD GIRLS DON'T HAVE THE TIME.
No woman can be handsome by the force of
features alone, any more than she can be
witty only by the help of speech.
Richard Steele (1672-1729), Irish playwright
Women want mediocre men, and men are
Forgetting is woman’s first and greatest art. working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
Richard Aldington (1892-1962), English poet and novelist Margaret Mead (1901- ), US anthropologist and psychologist
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Man for the field and woman for the hearth: It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick
Man for the sword and for the needle she: a hole in a stained-glass window.
Man with the head and woman with the heart: Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), US detective-story novelist
Man to command and woman to obey;
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral
All else confusion.
sense; that which they will is right; that which
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet
they reject is wrong; and their will, in most cases,
Womanhood is the great fact in her life; ends by settling the moral.
wifehood and motherhood are Henry Adams (1838-1918), US historian and scholar
but incidental relations.
Elizabeth Stanton (1815-1902), US women’s rights activist I expect that Woman will be the last thing
civilized by Man.
Friedrich One must choose between loving George Meredith (1828-1909), British novelist and poet
Nietzsche women and knowing them.

(1844-1900) Ninon De Lenclos (1620-1705), Oh woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent,
German French lady of fashion. all hell contains no fouler fiend.
philosopher. Homer (9th century BC), Greek poet, Odyssey
Most women set out to try to change a man, and
WOMAN WAS GOD'S when they have changed him they do not like him.
SECOND MISTAKE. Marlene Dietrich (Maria Magdalene von Losch, 1904-1992),
German-born film actress and singer
Woman’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.
complete quote:
Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979), US stage actress
God created woman. And boredom did indeed
cease from that moment - but many other things Here’s to woman! Would that we could fall into
ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake. her arms without falling into her hands.
Nietzsche (1844-1900), German writer, The Antichrist (1888) Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), US writer
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will These impossible women! How they do get around
be a crushing tax on bachelors. us! The poet was right:
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright can’t live with them, or without them.
Aristophanes (445-380 BC), Greek playwright, Lysistrata (411 BC)
Women are more fascinating between the age of
thirty-five and forty after they have won a few Often misquoted as “Women, can’t live with them; can’t live
races and know how to pace themselves. without them.”
Since few women ever pass forty, maximum
fascination can continue indefinitely. WOMEN WHO SEEK
Christian Dior (1905-1957), French fashion designer TO BE EQUAL WITH MEN
If men knew all that women think, they'd be LACK AMBITION.
twenty times more daring.
Alphonse Karr
What will not woman, Timothy Leary
Women wish to be loved without a why or a gentle woman dare, When strong (1920-1996),
wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, affection stirs her spirit up? US philosopher.
or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, Robert Southey (1774-1843), British poet
but because they are themselves.
I’m furious about the Women’s Liberationists.
Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher and poet
They keep getting up on soapboxes and
If men knew how women pass the time when proclaiming that women are brighter than men.
they are alone, they’d never marry. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter, 1862-1910), US writer ruins the whole racket.
Anita Loos (1891-1981), US novelist and screenwriter
Do you know why God withheld the sense of
humor from women? That we may love you Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade,
instead of laughing at you. since it consists principally of dealing with men.
Mrs. Patrick Cambell (1865-1940), British actress Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish-born British novelist

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