Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

The House of Mirth

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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
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James Thurber
James Thurber
I hate women because they always know where things are.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Is there no manners left among maids?

The Winter’s Tale

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

And of course a man who is much talked about is always very attractive. One feels there must be something in him after all.

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Mae West
Mae West

It’s better to be looked over than overlooked.

in Belle of the Nineties

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

You should never try to understand them. Women are pictures. Men are problems. If you want to know what a woman really means—which, by the way, is always a dangerous thing to do—look at her, don’t listen to her.

A Woman of No Importance

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Men are mad things.

The Two Noble Kinsmen

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Thomas More
Thomas More
‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman….Or the want of it in a man.

A Woman of No Importance

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Homero
Homero

Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.

Odyssey

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Voltaire
Voltaire
A woman can keep one secret—the secret of her age.
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Mae West
Mae West
The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

A Woman of No Importance

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
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Mae West
Mae West
Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

His Heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Poor Richard’s Almanack

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

To one thing constant never.

Much Ado About Nothing

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?

A Women of No Importance

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

No faith, no honesty in men…

Romeo and Juliet

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Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Helen Rowland
Helen Rowland
The chief excitement in a woman’s life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Ah! the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women…merely adored.

An Ideal Husband

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
I am all for women’s rights—and for their lefts too.
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Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce
Guys are like dogs. They keep comin’ back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time…they’re gone.
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
The main achievement of the Women’s Movement was the right to go Dutch.
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Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three dollar pantyhose that won’t run.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Lady Windermere’s Fan

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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
At girls who wear glasses.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I’ve been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither of them would take out the garbage.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man is ever going to make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum. “My God, the floor’s immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch.”
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Mae West
Mae West
I only like two kinds of men—domestic and imported.
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
Women and elephants never forget.
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Mae West
Mae West

I’m tired, send one of them home.

on being told ten men were waiting for her in her dressing room

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise, they’re simply unbearable.

Practicalities

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Erica Jong
Erica Jong

Men and women, women and men—it will never work.

in Fear of Flying

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong.

A Woman of No Importance

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Mae West
Mae West
I like a man who’s good, but not too good. The good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Female, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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