woman quotes

“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”

“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”

“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. ”

“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. ”

“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. ”

“Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.”

“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”

“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. ”

“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”

“There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.”

“You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. ”

“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”

“The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. ”

“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ”

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”

“No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. ”

“Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! ”

“It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.”

“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. ”

“Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.”

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ”

“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.”

“Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.”

“Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. ”