Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

Woman’s reason is in the milk of her breasts.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favorite form of self- indulgence.

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

the females of all species are most / dangerous when they appear to retreat.

There’s no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain’t no lady. Sometimes I even wish

Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind / Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

A woman’s vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the God of her idolatry.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

Woman is woman’s natural ally.

What else goes wrong for a woman—except her marriage?

Neither earth nor ocean / produces a creature as savage and monstrous / as woman.

There seems to be some pleasure / for women in sick talk of one another.

Love’s all in all to women.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

A woman’s strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Of women, the most.we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, / Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don’t mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don’t do.

Women, like flames, have a destroying power, / Ne’er to be quenched till they themselves devour.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, / Which, to admire, we should not understand.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about—the giving ol birth and the giving of nourishment.

Old, that’s an affront no woman can well bear.

Now what I love in women is, they won’t / Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it / So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

Alas! the love of Women! it is known / To be a lovely and a fearful thing.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Here’s to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will is right; that which they reject is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody’s way and plentiful in all countries.