Women Quotes

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

Elsa Schiaparelli

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Charles A. Cerami

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

John Johnson

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Warren Buffett

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

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.

Unknown

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Scarface

Thirty - Five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty - Five for years.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

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

George Bernard Shaw

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

I married beneath me - All women do.

Nancy Asto

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

Anna Garlin Spence

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.

Saville

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Anna Russell

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand, jurist

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

Unknown

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rebecca West

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Burgess

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Mere

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George W. Foote