Women Quotes


Great Quotes from Great Women
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Beerbohm, Max
Most women are not as young as they are painted. -- Max Beerbohm


de Cervantes, Miguel
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. -- Miguel De Cervantes


Ferber, Edna
A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle. -- Edna Ferber


Giraudoux, Jean
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. -- Jean Giraudoux


Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Irving, Washington
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.


Juvenal
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes. -- Juvenal


Ovid
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. -- Ovid


Plautus, Titus Maccius
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. -- Plautus


Shakespeare, William
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.


Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson


Wilde, Oscar
Women are made to be loved, not understood. -- Oscar Wilde