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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
Ningue m no cais tem um nome so .Todos te" m tambe m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.
Widgongel wif word gespringeth. A roving woman gives rise to gossip.
There is no woman who does not dream of being dressed in Paris.
Prudence is the other woman in Gordon's life.
Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike hershe was onlyan Object of Contempt.
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
Goldsmith tells us, when a lovely woman stoops to folly, shehasnothing to do but die; and when shestoopsto be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. See Goldsmith 361:47.
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
The government of a woman has been a rare thing at all times; felicity in such government a rarer thing still; felicityand long continuance together the rarest thing of all.
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of Americanmanmorethantheautomobile, or seemsso important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
Charmit's a sort of a bloom on a woman.If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
La femme est naturelle, c'est-a' -dire abominable. Woman is natural, that is, abominable.
There is no other purgatory but a woman.
Hark! The herald angels sing! Beecham's Pills are just the thing, Two for a woman, one for a child, Peace on earth and mercy mild!
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
And when the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it waspleasanttothe eyes,and atreetobe desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them bothwere opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the L God walking inthegarden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the L God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the man said,The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the L God said unto the woman,What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Avirtuouswomanisa crowntoher husband: but shethat maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, thanwith a brawling woman in a wide house.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the L, she shall be praised.
Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on theson of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time. Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you. That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Either what womanhaving ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep thehouse, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Jesussaithuntoher,Woman, what have Ito dowiththee? mine hour is not yet come.
Jesus saith unto her,Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.Jesus saith unto her,Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works.
If a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair isgiven her for a covering.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
A man who any woman might love, but who no sane woman would marry.
The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this Congregation, to join together this man and this woman in holy Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God.
Man that isbornof a womanhath but a short timeto live, and is full of misery.
Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
Dear, dead woman, with suchhair, toowhat's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!
Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman; Tho'they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.
There is something both gratifying and humiliating in watching a man who has taken you for a routinely silly woman begin to take you seriously.
Oh! too convincingdangerously dear In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. SeeAmis14:84.
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
Solitude and melancholy, that is a woman's life.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stagesfirst an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
What is bettre than gold? Jaspre.What is bettre than jaspre? Wisedoom.
And what isbettrethanwisedoom? Womman. And what is bettre than a good womman? Nothyng.
She was maintaining the prime truth of woman, the universal motherthat if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Itrust I will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readerswould be surprised, perhapsshocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. 214
Whenever possible print a woman's age.
Je voudrais tant e" tre une femme sans y penser. I would like so much to be a woman without thinking about it.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.
A savage place! as holyand enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Ne porte jamais de bijoux artistiques, c° a de conside' re comple' tement une femme. Don't ever wear artistic jewellery; it wrecks a woman's reputation.
Man was by Nature Woman's cully made: We never are, but by ourselves, betrayed.
Awit should no more be sincerethana woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as t'other of beauty.
A fellow that lives ina windmill hasnot a more whimsical dwelling thantheheartof a manthat islodged inawoman.
I would gladly have thrashed her for it.Unfortunately, thrashing your young woman doesn't make her admire you more as a novelist.
O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch? Oh why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? See Chesterton 213:99.
But what is woman?only one of Nature's agreeable blunders.
Este natural impulso que Dios puso en m|su Majestad sabe por que y para que ; y sabe que le he pedido que apague la luz de mi entendimiento dejando so lo lo que baste para guardar su Ley, pues lo dema s sobra, (seg u n algunos) en una mujer; y aun hay quien dice que dan a. This natural impulse which God has implanted in meonly His Majesty knows whyand wherefore and His Majesty also knows that I have prayed to Him to extinguish the light of my mind, only leaving sufficient to keep His Law, since any more is overmuch, so some say, in a woman, and there are even those who say it is harmful.
Until a woman is free to be as incompetent as the average male then she will never be completely equal.
Thestrongest possiblepiece of advicethat Icouldgiveto any young woman is: Don't screwaround and don't smoke.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.
La femmesait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Womanknows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.
I have the head now of myself, and am man enough for a woman.
Thou'rt one of those That thinks each woman thy fond flexible whore.
She's the sort of womanone would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
Every woman should marryand no man.
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
Cherchons la femme. Let us look for the woman.
A man wants what a woman hassex. He can steal it (rape), persuade her to give it away (seduction), rent it (prostitution), leaseit over thelong term (marriage inthe United States), or own it outright (marriage in most societies).
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman! Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.
To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
A woman can hardly ever chooseshe is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.
Awoman, let her be asgood as shemay, hasgot to put up with the life her husband makes for her.
Amanisseldomashamedoffeeling that hecannot lovea woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her: nature having intended greatness for men.
When lovely woman stoops to follyand Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone. See Goldsmith 361:47.
Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.
I know that Ihavethe bodyof a weak and feeble woman, but I havetheheart and stomach of a kingand a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.
A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.
Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.
Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe beforeher shewill override you. Sotheway totreat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
A woman can look both moral and excitingif she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
La courtisane est un mythe. Jamais une femme n'a invente une de b auche. The courtesan is a myth. No woman has ever invented any new sensual pleasure.
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures; no restoratives Like to a constant woman.
Souvent femme varie, Mal habil qui s'y fie Woman is often fickle, Foolish the man who trusts her.
In that sharp light the fields did lie Naked and stone-like; each tree stood Like a tranced woman, bound and stark, Far off the wood With darkness ridged the riven dark. 336
A woman who is veryanxious to get children always reads 'storks'for 'stocks'.
If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.
A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman.You'll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poetand there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.
Asthe friend of the negro assumes that one man cannot, by right, hold another in bondage, should the friend of woman assume that man cannot, by right, lay even well- meant restrictions on woman.
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
He said that, by god,D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly- tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
For a woman, she has extraordinary talent.One must look for what she does, not what she fails to do.
When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away?
Wan swelh w|"p tugendet wider ir art, diu gerne wider ir art bewart ir lop, ir e" re unde ire l|"p, diu ist niwan mit namen ein w|"p und ist ein man mit muote. When a woman grows in virtue despite her nature and gladly preserves the integrity of her honour, her reputation, and her person, she is onlya woman in name: in spirit she is a man.
Both the cow-woman and the scum-woman are well within range of the comprehension of the Bawling Brotherhood, but the new woman is a little above him, and he never thought of looking up to where she has been sitting apart in silent contemplation all these years.
For a woman to have a liaison is almost always pardonable, and occasionally, when the lover chosen is sufficiently distinguished, even admirable.
The man who offers a bribe gives awaya little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has just paid for a woman.
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.
A great partyought nottobe brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.
It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.
It was better to love a woman than to be a graduate, or a parson; ay, or a pope!
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed fromthe one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There'sa broken-heartedwomantendsthegrave of Mad Carew, And theYellow God forever gazes down.
When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.
With fingers wearyand worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the'Song of the Shirt'.
They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life, a breast Still tender but within the womb is dry.
Dieu s'est fait homme; Soit! Le diable s'est fait femme. God made himself a man. So be it! The devil made himself a woman.
Ce ge nie particulier de la femme qui comprend l'homme mieux que l'homme ne se comprend. Awoman'sparticular talent istounderstand a manbetter than he understands himself.
Le premier sympto" me de l'amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c'est la timidite , chez une jeune fille, c'est la hardiesse. The first symptom of true love in a young man istimidity; in a young woman, it is boldness.
The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot!
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
'Dealing with a man,'said thenight-watchman,'isas easy as a teetotaller walking along a nice wide pavement; dealing with a woman is like the same teetotaller, after four or five whiskies, trying to get up a step that ain't there.'
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.
Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.
Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
All my house, But now, steamed like a bath with her thick breath. A lawyer could not have been heard; nor scarce Another woman, such a hail of words She has let fall.
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives.There isno power game.The man isnot 'taking' and the woman is not 'giving'. No one is attempting to cuckolda husband orhumiliateawife.No oneistrying to proveanythingorget anythingoutofanyone.Thezipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
I'm going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the worldand, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night's sleep.
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but ittakes a veryclever womantomanagea fool.
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
For what's a play without a woman in it?
Une belle femme qui a les qualite s d'un honne" te homme est ce qu'il y a au monde d'un commerce plus de licieux: l'on trouve en elle tout le me rite des deux sexes. A beautiful woman who has the qualities of a gentleman is the most pleasing person in all the world: one finds in her all the merit of both sexes.
Un homme est plus fide' le au secret d'autrui qu'au sien propre; une femme au contraire garde mieux son secret que celui d'autrui. A man keeps another person's secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own secrets better than those of others.
Une femme insensible est celle qui n'a pas encore vu celui qu'elle doit aimer. Adispassionatewomanisonewhohasyettoseetheone she should love.
J'ai bien besoin d'avoir cette femme, pour me sauver du ridicule d'en e" tre amoureux. I need to possess this woman in order to save myself from the absurdity of being in love with her.
Quand une femme frappe dans le coeur d'une autre, elle manque rarement de trouver l'endroit sensible, et la blessure est incurable. When one woman touches another's heart, she rarely has trouble finding the sensitive spot and the wound is incurable.
Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.
I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her.
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
You don't knowa womanuntil you have had a letter from her.
She's the sort of woman who lives for othersyou can always tell the others by their hunted expression.
Dessa civiliza c° a o so pode sair quem tem como fun c° a o especial a de sair: a um cientista e dada a licen c° a, a um padre e dada a permissa o. Mas na o a uma mulher que nem sequer tem as garantias de um t|tulo. Only he whose special function is departure can depart from that civilization: a scientist isgiven license, a priest isgiven permission. But these are not given to a woman who does not even have the guarantee of a title.
I'm furious about the Woman's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
That is the worst thing about being a middle-class womanyou have more knowledge of yourself and the world: you are equipped to make choices, but there are none left to make.
Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
A man's boots with a woman in them Clatter across the floor.
A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears.
Why haven't Igot a real'home'a real lifewhyhaven't Igot a Chinesenurse with green trousers and two babies who rush at me and clasp my knees? I'm not a girlI'm a woman. I want thingsall this love and joy that fights for outletand all this life drying up, like milk in an old breast.
I can't remember a single masculine figure created bya woman who is not, at bottom, a booby.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Affairs of the world he could treat competently; he had a head for high politics and the management of men; the femininehalfoftheworldwasa confusionandavexation to his intelligence, characterless; and one woman at last appearing decipherable, he fancied it must be owing to her possession of character, a thing prized the more in women because of his latent doubt of its existence.
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
Spare me! You forget nothin'and forgive nothin'. Learn charity, woman. I have gonetiptoe in this house all seven month since she isgone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches around your heart.
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
Si l'on vient a' savoir mon nom, de' s ce moment je me tais. Je connais une femme qui marche assez bien, mais qui boite de' s qu'on la regarde. Once someone wants to know my name, I become quiet. I know a woman who walks rather well, but who limps once she sees someone watching her.
Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.
A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.
I thought of my mother, who would publicly campaign for birth control but would never even think she needed to talk to me, so firmly was she convinced that sex was something no womanno intelligent womanwould ever submit to unless she had to.
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.
A woman is stripped of everything by them [saloons]. Her husband is torn from her; she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food, and her virtue; and then they strip her clothes off and hang her up bare in these dens of robbery and murder. Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things!
She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no useafther a month or two, th' wondher of a woman wears off.
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
A woman who cannot be a governess or a novel-writer mustfall backonthat poor littleneedle, theprimitiveand original handicraft of femininity.
The historical repugnancetowomanhas a rational basis: disgust is reason's proper response to the grossness of procreative nature.
No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink fromtheservice of his country; but hethat standsit now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.
Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.
A woman is a foreign land.
Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.When we love a womanwe don't start measuring her limbs.
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male istoaccept a womannot merelyas feeling, not merelyas thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.
The deathof a beautifulwomanis, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
The Duke takes a town in the same light-hearted way as he seduces a woman.
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be Queen for life.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
A fashionable woman wears clothes; the clothes don't wear her.
A woman is as young as her knee.
As a woman I can't go towar, and I refuseto send anyone else.
I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.
Any woman's death diminishes me. See Donne 281:85.
You're blessed with a woman's brain: vague, slippery, inexact, interested only inthe personal aspect of a thing.
Ballard admitted he was no hand at giving descriptions; the man was apparentlya gentleman and the woman well, not exactlya lady, although shehad a very fine flow of language.
Antes que me hubiera apasionado por mujer alguna, jugue mi corazo n al azar y me lo gano la violencia. Before I felt passion for any woman, I gambled my heart and lost it to violence.
Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.
My most neglected wife, till you are a much respected widow,I find you will scarce be a contented woman, and to say no more than the plain truth, I do endeavour so fairly to do you that last good service.
Farewell Woman, I intend, Henceforth, every night to sit, With my lewd well natured friend, Drinking, to engender wit.
A woman is like a tea bag; when she is in hot water she just gets stronger.
L'homme dit ce qu'il sait, la femme dit ce qui pla|"t. A man says what he knows, a woman says what pleases.
Quand une femme me para|"t belle, je n'ai rien a' en dire. Je la vois sourire, tout simplement. Les intellectuels de montent le visage, pour l'expliquer par les morceaux, mais ils ne voient plus le sourire. When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
This pretty ring I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one.
With each generation the entire race passes through the body of its womanhood as through a mould, reappearing withtheindeliblemarks ofthat mould upon it, that as the os cervix of woman, through which the head of the human infant passes at birth, forms a ring, determining for ever the size at birth of the human headso exactly the intellectual capacity, the physical vigour, the emotional depth of woman, forms also an untranscendable circle, circumscribing with each successive generation the limits of expansion of the human race. 720
O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the pots, tired of my mouth and my breasts tired of the cosmetics and the silks I was tired of the gender of things.
The Rev St John Froude put the phone down thoughtfully. The notion that he was sharing the house with a disembodied and recently murdered woman was not one that he had wanted to put to his caller. His reputation for eccentricity was already sufficiently widespread without adding to it.
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
The only way forawomantoprovideforherselfdecently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
That damnable woman's trick of heaping obligations on a man, of placing yourself so entirelyand helplesslyat his mercy that at last he dare not take a step without running to you for leave. I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife. She prevents him by threatening to throw herself in front of the engine of the train he leaves her in. That is what all women do. If we try to go where you do not want us to go there is no law to prevent us; but when we take the first step your breasts are under our foot as it descends: your bodies are under our wheels as we start. No woman shall ever enslave me in that way.
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like.
'Tis no shame for men Of his high birth to love a wench; his honour May privilege more sins. Next to a woman, He loves a running-horse.
Just seehow well shegoverns! She is onlya woman, only the mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, byall!
The ground is like a beautiful woman. If you treat her gently, she'll tell you all her secrets.
Woman, silence makes a woman beautiful.
The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.
L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes, c'est un e pisode dans celle des hommes. Love is the story of a woman's life, but onlyan episode in the life of a man.
Quite as many false ideas prevail as to woman's true position in the home as to her status elsewhere. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.
Although woman has performed much of the labor of theworld, her industryand economy have beenthevery means of increasing her degradation.
As to woman's subjectionit is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.
The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.
'Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice', should be a woman's motto henceforward.
The great and almost onlycomfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
'Pray, my dear,'quoth my mother,'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?''Good G?'cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time,'Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?'
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free.
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.
Well, if the worst comes in the end of all, it'll be great game to see if there's none to pity him but a widow woman, the like of me, has buried her children and destroyed her man.
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down.
The woman is so hard Upon the woman.
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
Remember, it is as easy to marrya rich woman as a poor woman.
No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor of the Exchequer or Foreign Secretarynot the top jobs. Anyway, I would not want to be Prime Minister; you have to give yourself100 per cent.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Any womanwho understandsthe problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
No woman can look as well out of the fashion as in it.
Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says.
If I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.
'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house,'she said.
Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.
A football team is like a beautiful woman.When you do not tell her so, she forgets she is beautiful.
I have been told, both in approval and accusation, that I seemto loveall mycharacters.What Idoinwriting of any character istotry toenter intothemind, heart and skinof a human being who is not myself.Whether this happens to be a man ora woman, old or young, with skin blackor white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high.
If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
:The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. : It ends with Revelations.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness.
: I think Jack, for instance, a charming name. :Jack? No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations I have known several Jacks, and theyall, without exception, weremore than usually plain. Besides,Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.
She wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile.Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.
L'expe rienced'une femme e crivain est comple' tement schizophre nique. Il faut toujours faire coupure entre les deux: d'une part, employer un langage qui n'est pas le no" t reet la lutte qu'on me' ne sur un autre plan, qui tend 'a casser tout c° a, a' essayer de faire a' travers et dans le langage autre chose. The experienceof the woman writer is completely schizophrenic.One is always torn between two approaches: on the one hand, to use a language that is not oursand on the other, the battle one fights to break all this up, in order to do something else through and in language.
Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy. She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears, whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
A king is always a kingand a woman always a woman; his authorityand her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man, for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
Awoman must have moneyand a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.
The woman voter would be pernicious to the State not only because she could not back her vote by physical force, but also by reason of her intellectual defects.
Practically every man feels that there is in womanan element of unreason which, when you come upon it, summarily puts an end to purely intellectual intercourse.
Wit ismore necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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