Quotes with woman]

Quotes 561 till 580 of 773.

  • Queen Victoria The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Marcelene Cox The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Alexander Smith The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Carol P. Christ The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Paine The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Henry James The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Douglas Jerrold The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Barry Cornwall The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
    Source: Dramatic scenes: with other poems
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Gloria Steinem The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Frank Dane The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
    Source: Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Florence King The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Casey Wilson The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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