WOMEN QUOTES XIX

quotations about women

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

REX STOUT

The Mother Hunt


Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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The imaginative estimate or ideal conception of Woman by the Poets has always been deemed exceptionally interesting, especially by women themselves, for, as a rule, it is agreeable; and, even if the presentation be sometimes a little overcharged with glowing colour, all of us, men and women alike, are not otherwise than pleased with descriptions that portray us, not exactly as we are, but as we should like to be. Withal, a portrait, to obtain recognition, must have in it some resemblance to the original; and, speaking in the most prosaic manner, one need not hesitate to affirm that any representation of women, at least of womanly women, that was not attractive would be a travesty of the fact.

ALFRED AUSTIN

The Bridling of Pegasus

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Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

The Sound and the Fury

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A campaign is using a new hashtag called #WomenNotObjects to promote the need to stop objectifying women when it comes to advertising products and companies. The YouTube post, "We Are #WomenNotObjects" has received approximately 1,075,821 views and demonstrates to its viewers that you can find many advertisements that objectify women just by googling it.

TISHA LENON

"Women are not objects for your brand", Talon Marks, February 9, 2016


For one to admire a woman merely for her beauty, is to love the building for its exterior; but to love one for the greatness of her soul, is to appreciate the tenement for its intrinsic value.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing

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No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

REX STOUT

Some Buried Caesar

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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Ferragus, chef des Dévorants

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A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

GELETT BURGESS

The Maxims of Methuselah


A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, "Perhaps this is THE man."

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Notebook

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A woman's passion is like the tide, it stays for no man when the hour is come.

APHRA BEHN

The Lucky Chance

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A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human


Men look at women the way men look at cars. Everyone looks at Ferraris. Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all end up with station wagons.

TIM ALLEN

Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man

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Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"Coquette"

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Philanderer

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions today.

WILLIAM BOLITHO

Twelve Against the Gods

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There is nothing in the female sex more graceful or becoming than Modesty. It adds charm to their beauty, and gives a new softness to their sex. Without it simplicity and innocence appear rude; reading and good sense, masculine; wit and humour, lascivious. This is so necessary a quality for pleasing, that the loose part of the sex, whose study it is to ensnare men's hearts, never fail to support the appearance of what they know is essential to that end.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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We never see the mass of women en costume, without being reminded of the artificial flies used in angling--tricked out, also, with much the same object, only that, like St. Peter, women are "fishers of men."

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos

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