Quotes about women

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

Gelett Burgess

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

Henry Ward Beecher

The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women they're all masochists at heart.

Henry Miller

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

John Steinbeck

My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, «Serve all, love one».

Honore de Balzac, "The Lily Of The Valley"

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Vincent Van Gogh

Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive.

Abraham Miller

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Ambrose Bierce

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women merely adored.

Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Freddie Mercury

A man chases a woman until she catches him.

American proverb

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

Washington Irving

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

George Eliot

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

J. D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye"

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.

Nicole Hollander

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain