Women are an aristocracy. [ Michelet ]

Three women make a market. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Women's work is never done. [ Proverb ]

All women are equal in love.

Love renders women discreet. [ Barthe ]

Women do not fancy timid men. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Society is the book of women. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Old women's gold is not ugly. [ Proverb ]

Dally not with money or women. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Words are women, deeds are men. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let women spin, and not preach. [ Proverb ]

Tears are the strength of women. [ Saint-Evremond ]

The best of women are hypocrites. [ Thackeray ]

What the devil can not, women do. [ Proverb ]

Men get wealth and women keep it. [ Proverb ]

Women have the genius of charity. [ E. W. Legouve ]

Vanity ruins more women than love. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

Men make laws; women make manners. [ De Segur ]

Women are coquettes by profession. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Men are less forgiving than women. [ Richardson ]

Hell is paved with women's tongues. [ Abbe Guyon ]

Devotion is the last love of women. [ Saint-Evremond ]

Women of the world crave excitement. [ Chamfort ]

Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]

Men have marble, women wasen, minds. [ Shakespeare ]

One wearies delightfully with women.

Words are for women, actions for men. [ Proverb ]

Even women are perfect at the outset. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Women are priestesses of the unknown.

Women conceal all that they know not. [ Proverb ]

With women worth the being won.
The softest lover ever best succeeds. [ Hill ]

When women sue, they sue to be denied. [ Young ]

No relying on wine, women and fortune. [ Proverb ]

Three women and a goose make a market. [ Proverb ]

Men are nearly as capricious as women. [ Chamfort ]

Geese with geese, and women with women. [ Proverb ]

Sweet is revenge - especially to women. [ Byron ]

Women have no worse enemies than women. [ Duclos ]

The eyes of women are Promethean fires. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nature makes fools; women make coxcombs.

Swine, bees and women, cannot be turned. [ Proverb ]

Play, women, and wine undo men laughing. [ Proverb ]

Women were made to give our eyes delight;
A female sloven is an odious sight. [ Young ]

All women seem by nature to be coquettes. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The most enthusiastic mystics were women. [ Jean Paul ]

Women read each other at a single glance. [ Rivarol ]

To women silence gives their proper grace. [ Sophocles ]

Almost all women have hearts full of pity. [ Thackeray ]

Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Women and wine make men out of their wits. [ Proverb ]

Women have always some mental reservation. [ Destouches ]

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. [ Hazlitt ]

Women, like princes, find few real friends. [ Lord Lyttleton ]

Fools are wise men in the affairs of women. [ Proverb ]

Women know not the whole of their coquetry. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

When women love us they forgive everything. [ Balzac ]

Nature in women is so nearly allied to art. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Never choose linen or women by candle-light. [ Proverb ]

Women as a sex are Sphinxes without secrets. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Women commend a modest man but like him not. [ Proverb ]

O women! you are very extraordinary children! [ Diderot ]

The ruses of women multiply with their years. [ Proverb ]

If women were humbler, men would be honester. [ Vanbrugh ]

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Women, priests, and poultry have never enough. [ Proverb ]

Men acquire acuteness; women are born with it.

Men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,
When women cannot love where they're beloved! [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V. Sc. 4 ]

Women, when offended, are generally implacable.

They say women and music should never be dated. [ Goldsmith ]

With women, friendship ends when rivalry begins.

There are female women, and there are male women. [ Charles Buxton ]

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. [ Lamartine ]

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. [ Thomas C. Haliburton ]

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination. [ Rousseau ]

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. [ Victor Hugo ]

Most women caress sin before embracing penitence. [ Fontanelle ]

Men love little and often, women much and rarely. [ Basta ]

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. [ Alphonse Karr ]

Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never. [ Beauchene ]

The night shows stars and women in a better light. [ Byron ]

Ugly women, finely dressed, are the uglier for it. [ Proverb ]

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [ La Bruyere ]

Women laugh when they can and weep when they will. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity. [ Tertullian ]

Men know life too early, women know life too late. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Men are women's playthings; women are the devil's. [ Victor Hugo ]

As soon as women are ours, we are no longer theirs. [ Montaigne ]

Women commiserate the brave, and men the beautiful. [ Landor ]

Where women are, and geese, there wants no gagling. [ Proverb ]

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Men are the cause of women's dislike for each other. [ La Bruyere ]

Women are rakes by nature and prudes from necessity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this -
Men prize the thing ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]

The hell for women who are only handsome is old age. [ Saint-Evremond ]

Women have more heart and more imagination than men. [ Lamartine ]

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice. [ Leigh Hunt ]

One must tell women only what one wants to be known. [ Caron ]

England's the paradise of women, and hell of horses. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to make all Europe agree than two women. [ Louis XIV ]

Women should despise slander, and fear to provoke it. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Men marry to make an end; women, to make a beginning. [ A. Dupuy ]

Women sometimes deceive the lover - never the friend. [ L. S. Mercier ]

Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and jumps. [ Balzac ]

Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them. [ James Parton ]

Women have tears of dissimulation, as well as sorrow. [ Proverb ]

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. [ De Maistre ]

Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none. [ Mme. Bachi ]

Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak. [ Mme. de Stael ]

There must first be seducing men before seduced women. [ Jean Paul ]

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters. [ Haliburton ]

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Women have a divine instinctive feeling for misfortune. [ French ]

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. [ Sheridan ]

He is a little man; let him go and work with the women! [ Longfellow ]

Women are never disarmed by compliments, men always are. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Men speak of what they know; women of what pleases them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with their eyes. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. [ Beaumarchais ]

Men would be saints if they loved God as they love women. [ Saint Thomas ]

Modern women understand everything except their husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

When an ass climbs a ladder, you may find wisdom in women. [ Proverb ]

We should all be perfect if we were neither men nor women.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest. [ Colton ]

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. [ Bruyere ]

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. [ Chamfort ]

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Women are too imaginative and sensitive to have much logic. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

None laugh better, and oftener, than women with fine teeth.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire. [ Swift ]

One of the principal occupations of men is to divine women. [ Lacretelle ]

It is the opinion of men that makes the reputation of women. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Women are better sold for sorrow, than bought for repentance. [ Proverb ]

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

Women are in the moral world what flowers are in the physical. [ S. Marechal ]

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh, they make men pine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The virtue of women is often the love of reputation and quiet. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Women never weep more bitterly than when they weep with spite. [ A. Ricard ]

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. [ George Eliot ]

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion. [ Mrs. Campbell Praed ]

The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry. [ Jouy ]

Women are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Women are extremists: they are either better or worse than men. [ La Bruyere ]

Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more. [ Lemesles ]

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

When women cannot be revenged, they do as children do: they cry. [ Cardan ]

Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors. [ Lemontey ]

The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress. [ Richter ]

Women ask if a man is discreet, as men ask if a woman is pretty.

Gay clothing is the happiness of children and the weakest women. [ Proverb ]

The more women have risked, the more they are ready to sacrifice. [ Duclos ]

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it. [ Lemontey ]

All women are good; viz. good for something, or good for nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing ages women so rapidly as having married the general rule. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. [ William Shakespeare ]

American women are wonderfully clever in concealing their parents. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. [ A. Karr ]

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Women have fewer vices than men; but they have stronger prejudices. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

Women are extreme in all points. They are better or worse than men. [ Bruyere ]

Women enjoy more the pleasure they give than the pleasure they feel. [ Rochepedre ]

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. [ George Sand ]

Women are ever in extremes; they are either better or worse than men. [ Bruyere ]

Women distrust men too much in general, and not enough in particular. [ Commerson ]

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. [ Alphonse Karr ]

The more women look in their glass the less they look to their house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Women are demons that make us enter hell through the door of paradise.

Ambiguous things that ape goats in their visage, women in their shape. [ Byron ]

It was surely the devil that taught women to dance, and asses to bray. [ Proverb ]

The society of women endangers men's morals and refines their manners. [ Montesquieu ]

Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover. [ Lamennais ]

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently. [ De Maistre ]

The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life. [ Schiller ]

Men say of women what pleases them; women do with men what pleases them. [ De Segur ]

Women are women, but to become mothers they go to duty through pleasure. [ Joubert ]

In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them. [ Balzac ]

Women have no appreciation of good looks. At least, good women have not. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. [ Balzac ]

Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable. [ Voltaire ]

Marriage communicates to women the vices of men, but never their virtues. [ Fourier ]

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. [ Alcott ]

The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in women, by the heart. [ Stendhal ]

Pretty women are like sovereigns: one flatters them only through interest.

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide. [ George Sand ]

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

The more women look into their glass, the less they look into their hearts. [ Proverb ]

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

With women, the desire to bedeck themselves is always the desire to please. [ Marmontel ]

Pity it is that no vanity should be put into the composition of women-kind. [ Proverb ]

Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness, and saved by their coquetry. [ Mlle. Azais ]

The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose. [ Saint Foix ]

Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax. [ Jean Paul ]

The wit of most women goes more to strengthen their folly than their reason. [ La Roche ]

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. [ Joubert ]

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. [ Chamfort ]

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and everything tends to make them so. [ Mary Wollstonecraft ]

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. [ Octave Feuillet ]

Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game abounds. [ Latena ]

We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives. [ D'Harleville ]

Women admire strength without affecting it; men delicacy without returning it. [ Jean Paul ]

The world is packed with good women. To know them is a middle-class education. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. [ Boiste ]

Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms! [ De Finod ]

Women are constantly the dupes, or the victims, of their extreme sensitiveness. [ Balzac ]

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. [ Mere ]

The wisdom of women comes to them by inspiration, their folly by premeditation. [ Dumas, Pere ]

It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

Men are more eloquent than women made; but women are more powerful to persuade. [ Thomas Randolph ]

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them. [ Sophie Arnould ]

Of all things that man possesses, women alone take pleasure in being possessed. [ Malherbe ]

Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them know them still less. [ Mme. de Salm ]

The pains that excite the least pity in women are those that we suffer for them. [ Chabanon ]

I have a very poor opinion of a man who talks to men what women should not hear. [ Richardson ]

Women of society, as well as Hottentots, run naturally to ornaments and gewgaws. [ Pere Dumas ]

Women can accomplish everything, because they govern those who govern everything. [ French Proverb ]

There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. [ Antoine Berryer ]

Do not take women from the bedside of those who suffer: it is their post of honor. [ Mme. Cecille Fee ]

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey, the more they rule. [ Michelet ]

Women, cats, and birds are the creatures that waste the most time on their toilets. [ Charles Nodier ]

We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude. [ Charles Buxton ]

Women have the same desires as men, but do not have the same right to express them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Women grown bad are worse than men, because the corruption of the best turns worst. [ Proverb ]

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. [ Haliburton ]

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections. [ Chamfort ]

Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women. [ La Bruyere ]

Some women need much adorning, as some meat needs much seasoning to incite appetite. [ Rochebrune ]

Women, like roses, should wear only their own colors, and emit no borrowed perfumes. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

Women, like men, may be persuaded to confess their faults; but their follies, never. [ Alfred de Musset ]

A royal court without women is like a year without spring, a spring without flowers. [ Francis I. of France ]

Women prefer us to say a little evil of them, rather than say nothing of them at all. [ A. Ricard ]

The height of power in women, so far as manners are concerned, rests in tranquillity. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.

Certain importunities always please women - even when the importuner does not please.

All women become like their mothers - that is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

A pious man said: If I ignored the existence of God, I would adore the sun and women.

Men say more evil of women than they think: it is the contrary with women toward men. [ S. Dubay ]

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. [ Haliburton ]

The weaknesses of women have been given them by nature to exercise the virtues of men. [ Mme. Necker ]

English women conceal their feelings until after they are married, then they show them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine bodies, and of souls that have fine eyes. [ J. Joubert ]

Wicked women bother one, good women bore one. That is the only difference between them. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Women have always been picturesque protests against the mere existence of common sense. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There are no more thorough prudes than those women who have some little secret to hide. [ George Sand ]

Women deceived by men want to marry them: it is a kind of revenge as good as any other. [ Beaumanoir ]

There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable. [ Houelle ]

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on. [ Anna Cora Mowatt ]

Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an opportunity to be generous.

There are three things that women throw away: their time, their money, and their health. [ Mme. Geoffrin ]

The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red. [ Holmes ]

One can always recognize women who trust their husbands, they look so thoroughly unhappy. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Happy is the man who reverences all women because he first learned to worship his mother. [ Richter ]

In condemning the vanity of women, men complain of the fire they themselves have kindled. [ Lingrie ]

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. [ Victor Hugo ]

We scoff at women who take us seriously, and we take tragically to those who scoff at us.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven. [ Mme. Necker ]

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. [ Thomas Paine ]

Beauty in women is like the flowers in the spring; but virtue is like the stars of Heaven. [ Proverb ]

It is not decided that women love more than men, but is indisputable that they love better. [ Sanial-Dubay ]

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. [ Horace Mann ]

Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

Women often deceive to conceal what they feel; men to simulate what they do not feel - love. [ E. Legouve ]

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men, than her reputation against women. [ Rochebrune ]

Women never lie more astutely than when they tell the truth to those who do not believe them.

A small number of men and women think for the million; through them the million speak and act. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Women have become so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it. [ John Selden ]

There are many women who never have had one intrigue; but there are few who have had only one. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. [ Bible ]

Men do not always love those they esteem; women, on the contrary, esteem only those they love. [ S. Dubay ]

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. [ Dickens ]

That caressing and exquisite grace - never bold, ever present - which just a few women possess. [ Owen Meredith ]

Men always say more evil of women than there really is; and there is always more than is known. [ Mezerai ]

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them. [ Lamartine ]

Modesty in women has great advantages: it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness. [ Fontanelle ]

Women only call each other sister after they have called each other a lot of other things first. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Men declare their love before they feel it; women confess theirs only after they have proved it. [ Latena ]

How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands, if it were not the custom to weep!

Vanity, shame, and, above all, temperament, often make the valor of men, and the virtue of women. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

She was a good deal shocked, - not shocked at tears, for women shed and use them at their liking. [ Byron ]

Superstitions would soon die out if so many old women would not act as nurses to keep them alive. [ Punch ]

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. [ Beaconsfield ]

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults. [ Abbi Girard ]

Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not. [ Chamfort ]

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]

Women complain of the lack of virtue in men, and do not esteem those who are too strictly virtuous. [ Blondel ]

Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel: men are just the contrary. [ Beauchene ]

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter. [ Diderot ]

We love handsome women from inclination, homely women from interest, and virtuous women from reason. [ Amelot ]

Men may say of marriage and women what they please: they will renounce neither the one nor the other.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education. [ Harriet Martineau ]

Women are like melons: it is only after having tasted them that we know whether they are good or not. [ F. Soulie ]

Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life. [ Bignicourt ]

There is no objection to plain women being Puritans ; it is the only excuse they have for being plain. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Very learned women are to be met with, just as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor defenceless creatures they would be! [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Women are a fascinatingly wilful set. Every woman is a rebel and usually in wild revolt against herself. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, and in all of them a woman is only a weaker man. [ Plato ]

We censure the inconstancy of women when we are the victims: we find it charming when we are the objects. [ L. Desnoyers ]

No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women - not even to his own. [ Balzac ]

We accuse women of insincerity without perceiving that they are more sincere with us than with themselves.

It is as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes, as it is for a peacock to spread his tail. [ Proverb ]

A woman who writes, commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. [ Alphonse Karr ]

Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word Yes, at least they say it only after they have said No. [ Jean Paul ]

Modern women find a new scandal as becoming as a new bonnet, and air them both in the Park every afternoon. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]

The greatest satisfaction a woman can feel is to know that a man whom many other women love loves her alone.

The error of certain women is to imagine that, to acquire distinction, they must imitate the manners of men. [ J. de Maistre ]

All the evil that women have done to us comes from us, and all the good they have done to us comes from them. [ Martin ]

There are some women who require much dressing, as some meats must be highly seasoned to make them palatable. [ Rochebrune ]

Madame X. is a woman of too much wit and cleverness to be ever despised as much as some women less despicable. [ Chamfort ]

Some women boast of having never accorded anything; perhaps it is because they have never been asked anything.

If women are naturally more superstitious than men, it is because they are more sensitive and less enlightened. [ Beauchene ]

Women are right to crave beauty at any price, since beauty is the only merit that men do not contest with them. [ A. Dupuy ]

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. [ Chesterfield ]

I have often thought that the nature of women was inferior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. [ Greville ]

There are only two beautiful things in the world - women and roses; and only two sweet things - women and melons. [ Malherbe ]

The reason why so few women are touched by friendship is, that they find it dull when they have experienced love. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

All men are married women's property; that is the only true definition of what married women's property really is. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors, but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]

It is in the heart that God has placed the genius of women, because the works of this genius are all works of love. [ Lamartine ]

The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. [ Jean Paul ]

America is a Paradise for women - that is why, like Eve, the American women are extremely anxious to get out of it. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women. [ Balzac ]

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms. [ Beaconsfield ]

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. [ Washington Irving ]

The love of flattery in most men proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. [ Swift ]

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. [ Luther ]

Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous at times. [ Mlle, de Scuderi ]

Women are pictures, men are problems: if you want to know what a woman really means, look at her, don't listen to her. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The amount of women who flirt with their own husbands is scandalous. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye. [ C. Weber ]

In the present day, and especially among women, one would almost suppose that health was a state of unnatural existence. [ Beaconsfield ]

Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to speak little. [ Father Du Bosc ]

Those who always speak well of women do not know them enough; those who always speak ill of them do not know them at all. [ Pigault-Lebrun ]

The charm of the past is that it is past, but women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. [ Washington Irving ]

Women call repentance the sweet remembrance of their faults, and the bitter regret of their inability to recommence them. [ Beaumanoir ]

There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. [ Weber ]

In modern England the ordinary habits of life and modes of education produce great plainness of mind in middle-aged women. [ John Ruskin ]

Women like audacity: when one astounds them he interests them; and when one interests them, he is very sure to please them.

Always! that is a dreadful word. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A little love rapidly develops the sensibilities and intelligence of women: it is through the heart that they ripen or mold. [ Latena ]

Women are charged with a fondness for nonsense and frivolity. Did not Talleyrand say, I find nonsense singularly refreshing? [ Alfred de Musset ]

A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we would please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. [ J. G. Holland ]

Women dress less to be clothed than to be adorned. When alone before their mirrors, they think more of men than of themselves. [ Rochebrune ]

Talk not to me of the wisdom of women, - I know my own sex well; the wisest of us all are but little less foolish than the rest. [ Mary, Queen of Scots ]

Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them everything, even their gigantic intellects. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent. [ Rousseau ]

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird. [ Balzac ]

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

A look of intelligence in men is what regularity of features is in women; it is a style of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. [ La Bruyere ]

There are no pleasures where women are not; and with the French, champagne itself has no flavor, unless served by the hand of beauty. [ Romieu ]

The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable.

I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element. [ Miss Muloch ]

The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness: it is the commerce of authors, women, priests, and kings. [ Mme. Roland ]

The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china: it is nothing, yet, without it, everything would be broken. [ Mme. de Salm ]

Nature has given to women fortitude enough to resist a certain time, but not enough to resist completely the inclination which they cherish. [ Dorat ]

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two. [ La Bruyere ]

What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat. [ La Bruyere ]

There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette: it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. [ Robert Adam ]

Science cannot grapple with the problem of women. It can never grapple with the irrational. That is why there is no future before it in this world. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Women are the happiest beings of the creation: in compensation for our services they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half. [ De Varennes ]

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues. [ Balzac ]

When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. If women knew what men think, they would be twenty times more coquettish. [ A. Karr ]

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. [ Colton ]

The science of women, as that of men, must be limited according to their powers: the difference of their characters ought to limit that of their studies. [ Fenelon ]

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. [ Diderot ]

There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe. [ Holmes ]

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained. [ Jean Paul ]

The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved. Those who do not love them are still more in the wrong than those who love them too much. [ Rochebrune ]

Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly. [ Barry Cornwall ]

I believe one reason why women are generally so much more cheerful than men is because they can work with the needle, and so endlessly vary their employment. [ Sydney Smith ]

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much,when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of those days! [ A. Houssaye ]

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage. [ Phoebe Gary ]

The friendship of some men is like the love of some women; it is variable and capricious, inconstant and uncertain, hard to win, and when won, not worth having. [ Acton ]

You know that in everything women write there are always a thousand faults of grammar, but, with your permission, a harmony which is rare in the writings of men. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence. [ Swift ]

The prodigality of women has reached such proportions that one must be wealthy to have one for himself: we have no other resource than to love the wives of others. [ A. Karr ]

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are; they have no time, they are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Love is a bird of passage that women await with curiosity in youth, retain with pleasure in maturer years, and allow to escape with regret when old age creeps upon them. [ A. Ricard ]

Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy. Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic of their eyes. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

Women speak easily of platonic love; but, while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilette that does not drive platonism from our hearts. [ A. Ricard ]

A man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person, which accounts for so much in women that their husbands never appreciate in them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

I cannot see why women are so desirous of imitating men. I could understand the wish to be a boa constrictor, a lion, or an elephant; but a man! that surpasses my comprehension. [ T. Gautier ]

Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts - they read another's better that they can their own. [ Richter ]

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. [ Addison ]

Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]

The reading of romances will always be the favorite amusement of women: old, they peruse them to recall what they have experienced; young to anticipate what they wish to experience. [ A. Ricard ]

Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart. [ La Bruyere ]

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Women always want one to be good. And if we are good when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

We may deserve grief; but why should women be unhappy? - except that we know heaven chastens those whom it loves best, being pleased by repeated trials to make these pure spirits more pure. [ Thackeray ]

Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? [ Thackeray ]

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be. so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. [ Horace Greeley ]

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. [ Hume ]

Friendship is impossible between men of high social standing and men in the lower walks of life; very difficult between a young man and a young woman; between two beautiful women, it is but a poetic fiction.

It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]

There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by god. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. [ Herbert Spencer ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion. [ Tertullian ]

Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety, - old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastical, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, - one in all, all in one. [ Marston ]

Beautiful to Ledyard, stiffening in the cold of a northern winter, seemed the diminutive, smoke-stained women of Lapland, who wrapped him in their furs, and ministered to his necessities with kindness and gentle words. [ Whittier ]

A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]

I have remarked that those who love women most, and are most tender in their intercourse with them, are most inclined to speak ill of them, us if they could not forgive them for not being as irreproachable as they wish them to be. [ T. Gautier ]

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. [ Lamartine ]

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. [ Goldsmith ]

Society is a necessary thing. No man has any real success in this world unless he has women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over. You might as well be a barrister, or a stock-broker, or a journalist at once. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them; almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, tender mothers. [ Thackeray ]

Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

The gracious and self-sacrificing and womanly women of our revolution wore dresses cut lower than those of their great-granddaughters, as any portrait gallery will show. The dress is indefensible, but let us not be too ready to condemn the wearer for worse sins than thoughtlessness and vanity. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

The world is divided into two armies. Men make offensive war, women defensive. Love exalts and excites the two parties. They meet hand to hand. Love throws himself into their midst, agitating his torch. But the struggle differs from other battles: instead of destroying, it multiplies the combatants. [ S. Marechal ]

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]

Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]

The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you. [ Diderot ]

After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]

Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]

The Christian cemetery is a memorial and a record. It is not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. It tells the story of the past, - not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives, - of its men and women and children, and of its household. It is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive. [ Joseph Anderson ]

No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]