Women Quotes - Page 39

• Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

  John Gay

  Passion, Wind, Mind

  John Gay (1752). “Poems on Several Occasions: Epistles on several occasions. Tales. Eclogues. Miscellanies. Dione, a pastoral tragedy”, p.185

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• And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

  John Gay

  Giving, Cases, Knows

  'Fables' (1727) 'The Hare and Many Friends' l. 41

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• If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

  James Thurber

  Fun, Purpose, Sometimes

  James Thurber (1961). “Lanterns & Lances”, New York : Harper

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• Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

  Menander

  Sea, Earth, Beast

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• All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Jeremy Taylor (1849). “The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ: The Saviour of the World”, p.67

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• It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Wife, Hell, Beats

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• The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Machines, Suppression, Exposed

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.

  Donald Evans

  Wine, Miracle, Mouths

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• THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!

  Candice Bergen

  Two, Religion, Principles

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• Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Sex, Believe

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• At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

  Herbert Croly

  Motherhood, Wife, Office

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• Look on beauty,
  And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,
  Which therein works a miracle in nature,
  Making them lightest that wear most of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Miracle, Looks

  1596-7 Bassanio, aside.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.88-91.

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• The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
  As is the razor's edge invisible.

  William Shakespeare

  Wenches, Razors, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.36

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• I have nothing
  Of woman in me; now from head to foot
  I am marble-constant.

  William Shakespeare

  Feet, Resolution, Constant

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 237

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• Nay, we must think men are not gods,
  Nor of them look for such observancy
  As fits the bridal.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Thinking, Looks

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.254, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
  They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
  They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
  They belch us.

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Two, Desire

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.841, Wordsworth Editions

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• Women's weapons, water-drops.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Weapons, Cry

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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• Haply a woman's voice may do some good
  When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

  William Shakespeare

  Agreement, Voice, May

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Henry V”, p.152, Booklassic

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• You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

  Artie Shaw

  Beautiful, Running, I Like You

  " Artie Shaw, the Reluctant 'King of Swing'", NPR, March 8, 2002.

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• I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Want, Knows

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• Oprah tells women what to read, what to eat, what to think, what to do.

  Adam Carolla

  Thinking

  "The Man Show". Comedy, Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. 1999 - 2014.

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• I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity.

  Chet Baker

  Girl, Kissing, Opportunity

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• Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.

  Brad Stine

  Sides, Way, Sexist

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• Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Years, Trying, Viagra

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• MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

  Dov Davidoff

  Mtv, Poverty, Young

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