Woman Quotes

"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself"

"A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!"

"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase"

Stendhal, Writer

"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness"

Stendhal, Writer

"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth"

Stendhal, Writer

"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant"

George Byron, Poet

"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"A man may keep a woman, but not his estate"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love"

Marcel Proust, Author

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world"

Carl Sandburg, Poet