4,008 quotes
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet · German · 1749 – 1832
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
Pearl S. Buck
Novelist · American · 1892 – 1973
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats
Poet · Irish · 1865 – 1939
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
David Herbert Lawrence
Writer · English · 1885 – 1930
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet · English · 1772 – 1834
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac
Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot
Author · British · 1819 – 1880
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer · French · 1613 – 1680
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw
Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland
Writer · American
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf
Author · British · 1882 – 1941
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. Forster
Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana
Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust
Author · French · 1871 – 1922
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka
Novelist · Austrian · 1883 – 1924
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson
Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken
Writer · American · 1880 – 1956
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
Writer · English
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer · English · 1874 – 1936
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
Doug Coupland
Author · Canadian · b. 1961
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Ambrose Bierce
Journalist · American · b. 1842
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
Mason Cooley
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire
Writer · French · 1694 – 1778
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Mary Astell
Writer · English · 1666 – 1731
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
Jessica Savitch
Journalist · American · 1947 – 1983
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Novelist · French · b. 1873
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield
Statesman · British · b. 1694
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod
Poet · Greek
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Washington Irving
Writer · American · 1783 – 1859
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
