Women

"Ämmät kyllä olutta juowat / cuin naudat wettä. (WST)"

"And ar'n't I a woman?"

"She was one of those languid women made of dark honey, smooth and sweet and terribly sticky, who take control of a room with a syrupy gesture, a toss of the hair, a single slow whiplash of the eyes—and all the while remain as still as the center of a hurricane, apparently unaware of the force of gravity by which they irresistibly attract to themselves the yearnings and the souls of both men and women."

"Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it."

"Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse."

"I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways."

"Une femme qui n'a pas été jolie n'a pas été jeune."

"All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions."

"For woman is not undeveloped man But diverse; could we make her as the man Sweet love were slain; his dearest bond is this Not like to like but like in difference."

"When I say that I know women, I mean that I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as I have no doubt she is to herself."

"He never saw a maiden without discovering in her features a touch of sensuality."

"Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible."

"With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual way of touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it."

"I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy."

"Aperte mala quum est mulier, tum demum est bona."

": Thanks, gentle Echo, right thy answers tell, What woman is, and how to guard her well. : Guard her well."

"O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts. ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream."

"Femmina è cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, è folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge."

"Woman is the lesser man."

"The woman is so hard Upon the woman."

"She with all the charm of woman, She with all the breadth of man."

"Habitus feminae duplicem speciem circumfert, cultum et ornatum. ... Alteri ambitionis crimen intendimus, alteri prostitutionis."

"She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good."

"Somebody has said that Woman’s place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right."

"The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward."

"Oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

"A ship is sooner rigged by far, than a gentlewoman made ready."

"Men byhove to take hede of maydens: for they ben hote & tendre of complexion; smale, pliaunt and fayre of disposicion of body; shamfaste, ferdefull and mery touchynge the affeccion of the mynde. Touchinge outwarde disposicion they be well nurtured, demure and softe of speche and well ware what they say: and delycate in theyr apparell. ... Their hondes and the uttermeste party of their membres ben full subtyll and plyaunt, theyr voyce small, theyr speche easy and shorte, lyght in goynge & shorte steppes, and lyght wit and heed; they ben sone angry, and they ben mercyable and envyous, bytter, gylefull, able to lerne. ... And for a woman is more meker than a man, she wepeth soner, and is more envyousse, and more laughinge, & lovinge, and the malice of the soule is more in a woman than in a man. And she is of feble kinde, and she makith more lesynges, and is more shamefaste, & more slowe in werkynge and in mevynge than is a man."

"Feme qui se bouche abandone Le sorplus molt de legier done."

"You have to treat 'em like s___."

"A woman's honor rests on manly love."

"Rainy and rough sets the day,— There's a heart beating for somebody; I must be up and away,— Somebody's anxious for somebody. Thrice hath she been to the gate,— Thrice hath she listen'd for somebody; 'Midst the night, stormy and late, Somebody's waiting for somebody."

"Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex."

"Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavour to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then crow wise for spite."

"Aut amat, aut odit mulier, nihil est tertium."

"Neque fœmina, amissa pudicitia, alia abnuerit."

"One way to hold a woman is not to hold her."

"I read somewhere that their periods attract bears. The bears can smell the menstruation."

"Women are like teeth. Some tremble and never fall and some fall and never tremble."

"Airy, fairy Lilian."

"With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair."

"A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she."

"Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls."

"For men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, But women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."

"Novi ingenium mulierum; Nolunt ubi velis, ubi nolis cupiunt ultro."

"Et Euam te esse nescis? Viuit sententia Dei super sexum istum in hoc saeculo: uiuat et reatus necesse est. Tu es diaboli ianua; tu es arboris illius resignatrix; tu es diuinae legis prima desertrix; tu es quae eum suasisti, quem diabolus aggredi non ualuit; tu imaginem Dei, hominem, tam facile elisisti; propter tuum meritum, id est mortem, etiam filius Dei mori habuit: et adornari tibi in mente est super pelliceas tuas tunicas?"

"Πάντα γυναῖκες ἴσαντι, καὶ ὡς Ζεὺς ἠγάγεθ᾽ ῞Ηρην."

"Will you look at that! Look how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs. Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!"

"Women bear crosses better than men do, but they bear surprises worse."

"In describing this syren, singing and smiling, coaxing and cajoling, the author, with modest pride, asks his readers all around, has he once forgotten the laws of politeness, and showed the monster's hideous tale above water? No! Those who like may peep down under waves that are pretty transparent, and see it writhing and twirling, diabolically hideous and slimy, flapping amongst bones, or curling round corpses; but above the water-line, I ask, has not everything been proper, agreeable, and decorous...?"