#Women Quotes

“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?”

“Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”

“Have you not heard it said full oft,A woman's nay doth stand for naught?”

“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.”

“O most delicate fiend!Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?”

“She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.”

“Two women placed together makes cold weather.”

“She is a woman, therefore to be won.”

“To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.”

“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

“'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love.”

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.”

“A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!”

“I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.”

“A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.”

“Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.”

“Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.”

“Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.”

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

“How hard it is for women to keep counsel!”

“Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.”

“Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.”

“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”

“Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.”

“LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.”

“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”

“Women see through Claude Lorraines.”

“When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'”

“Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.”

“A woman's fitness comes by fits.”

“Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.”

“Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.”

“The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.”

“If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

“You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?”

“Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?”

“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“The women that I picked spoke sweet and lowAnd yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.”

“It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.”

“That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.”

“Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.”

“A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.”

“Who is it can read a woman?”

“Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;And that is why their lovers are afraidTo tell them a plain story.”

“I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.”