Women - Quotes
I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round [...] as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
You know how women talk about having babies? This one had an easy delivery, this one had it hard? [...] Death is like that, too.
If a man talks about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains - because they’re there.
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
To women who please me only by their faces I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break - at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent - I am ever tender and true.
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn`t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.