Women

"Beware of fair and painted talk, Beware of flattering tongues: The Mermaids do pretend no good For all their pleasant songs. Some use the tears of crocodiles, Contrary to their heart: And if they cannot always weep, They wet their cheeks by art."

"As pure and sweet, her fair brow seemed— Eternal as the sky; And like the brook's low song, her voice— A sound which could not die."

"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly."

"Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."

"There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured."

"Oh! no one. No one in particular. A woman of no importance."

"Whatever a woman is," Wendre said, "she's that second and a woman first."

"Our government should not be run like a business; it should be run like a family...In any advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. Ours are threatened now, and we need to get fierce."

"It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins."

"You can't sit down right, 'Cause your jeans are too tight, And you're lucky it's ladies night. With your big empty purse, Every week it gets worse, At least your breasts cost more than hers."

"The right Education of the Female Sex, as it is in a manner every where neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later Age think a Woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her Husband's Bed from another's."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"She was a gentlewoman, a scholar, and a saint, and after having been three times married, she took a vow of celibacy. What more could be expected of any woman?"

"A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles."

"She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament."

"Thou, while thy babes around thee cling, Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made."

"And beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay."

"As unreserved, and beauteous, as the sun, Through every sign of vanity they run, Assemblies, parks, coarse feasts in City halls, Lectures, and trials, plays, committees, balls, Wells, bedlams, executions, Smithfield scenes, And fortune-tellers’ caves, and lions’ dens, Taverns, exchanges, bridewells, drawing-rooms, Instalments, pillories, coronations, tombs, Tumblers, and funerals, puppet-shows, reviews, Sales, races, rabbits, and (still stranger!) pews."

"Każda kobieta to fortepian – tylko trzeba umieć grać."

"Tout d’un coup, dans la bonne enfant, la femme se dressait, inquiétante, apportant le coup de folie de son sexe, ouvrant l’inconnu du désir. Nana souriait toujours, mais d’un sourire aigu de mangeuse d’hommes."

"Audax ad omnia fœmina, quæ vel amat vel odit."

"Les femmes peuvent tout, parcequ’elles gouvernent les personnes qui gouvernent tout."

"Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad."

"Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good."

"Geologist is the only person who can talk to a woman and use the words 'dike', 'thrust', 'bed', 'orogeny', 'cleavage', and 'subduction' in the same sentence without facing a civil suit."

"Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum: Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus."

"As the kynde of women is naturally geuen to the vyce of muche bablynge there is nothyng wherein theyr womanlynesse is more honestlie garnyshed than with sylence."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

": And women like that part which, like the lamprey, Hath never a bone in’t. : Fie, sir! : Nay, I mean the tongue; variety of courtship: What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale Make a woman believe?"