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Quotations
 | If we are to use women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 75 likes |
 | Women are nothing but machines for producing children. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 23 likes |
 | Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 18 likes |
 | Women have twice more hunger, four times more shame, six times more courage and eight times more erotic passion than men. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 17 likes |
 | If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 15 likes |
 | Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 14 likes |
 | The life of a woman is an endless search for a master. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 12 likes |
 | Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 11 likes |
 | I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. — Louis XIV of France, 1638-1715, King of France (le Roi Soleil) 11 likes |
| Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 9 likes |
 | It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 8 likes |
 | To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is just the opposite. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 8 likes |
 | Woman was God’s second mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 8 likes |
 | When a woman speaks, it is to say nothing, so when she does not say anything, she is talking. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 7 likes |
| Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 7 likes |
 | One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 7 likes |
 | The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?” — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 7 likes |
 | Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling. — Louisa May Alcott, 1923-1888, American writer 7 likes |
 | One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 6 likes |
 | Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 5 likes |
 | To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 5 likes |
| The hell of women is old age. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 5 likes |
 | No Woman, No Cry — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 5 likes |
 | The strength of women is not in what they say but in the number of times they say it. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 5 likes |
 | There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | No is no negative in a woman's mouth. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 4 likes |
 | What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 4 likes |
 | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 4 likes |
 | We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 4 likes |
 | Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. — Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer 4 likes |
 | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 4 likes |
 | Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. — Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, British statesman & philosopher 4 likes |
| Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 3 likes |
 | Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. — Saadi Shirazi, 1210-1292, Persian poet 3 likes |
 | I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 3 likes |
 | We are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 3 likes |
| A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 3 likes |
 | Woman is a temple built over a sewer. — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author 2 likes |
 | There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. — Alphonse de Lamartin, 1790-1869, French poet 2 likes |
 | Women hold up half the sky. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 2 likes |
 | A woman is like a rose: the petals fall in a week, but the thorns remain. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 2 likes |
 | Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Cinema is an art where you do nice things to beautiful women. — François Truffaut, 1932-1984, French film director 1 likes |
| When a woman is silent, listen carefully. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
 | A woman shows her ass faster than her heart. |
| Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, and scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is favored in heaven and advantageous on earth. |
| That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan. |
 | The four cornerstones of this world: bread, wine, fire, woman. |
 | Women read each other at a single glance. |
| The woman gives herself only to her first love; to all the others, she takes it back! |
 | An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies: all the stupid men. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. |
| Kings and women believe that everything that happens is due to them. |
| The woman is a lyre who only reveals her secrets to those who know how to play. |
| Woman is closer to angels than man, because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. |
| When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues. |
 | An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all. |
 | Four things greater than all things are, —Women and Horses and Power and War. |
| I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. |
 | There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. |
 | A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows. |
| The greatest power in the world is the youth and beauty of women. |
| If women love diamonds, maybe it's because they look like tears. |
 | Woman’s ideal: to be served in the little things, and to serve in the big ones. |
| All women stubbornly revolve around what should burn them. |
 | Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. |
| Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. |
| As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped. |
| Women in America read “lifestyle” pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador. |
| Someday every woman will have orgasms – like every family has color TV – and we can all get on with the business of life. |
| Women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness. |
 | If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. |
 | The most ridiculous thing for a woman is to be a man. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. |
 | Women are never so strong as after a defeat. |
| Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. |
 | The silliest woman is a hundred times more cunning than the wittiest man. |
| There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. |
 | You should never give orders to a woman unless you are sure beforehand that you will be obeyed. |
 | There’s something every woman wants, and that’s a man to blame. |
 | Women never intervene in my novels simply because they would talk all the time and the others would have nothing more to say. |
 | A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled. |
 | To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it. |
 | I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. |
 | Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. |
 | Dress is to the woman the prologue and, sometimes, even the whole book. |
 | It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are. |
| No two women are the same. Each one has something unique and irreplaceable. |
 | A woman's only ambition is to inspire love. |
Latin Quotes
 | The Woman is a sweet poison. Dulce puella malum est. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 51 likes |
 | Woman is ever a fickle and changeable thing. Varium et mutabile semper Femina. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 34 likes |
| A woman leads the events. Dux femina facti. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet (referring to queen Dido, founder of Carthage) 25 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer 3 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | A world without women? Certainly is a pain on each guys ass! — Anonymous 6 likes |
 | Women are like cigars: the first few puffs are the best. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 3 likes |
| Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. |
Ancient Greek
 | When the lamp goes off, all the women are the same. Λυχνίας σβεσθείσης, πάσα γυνή ομοία. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 11 likes |
 | Sea, fire and, the third evil, woman. Θάλασσα και πυρ, και γυνή τρίτον κακόν. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 11 likes |
 | The real ornament of woman is her character, not jewelry. Γυναικί κόσμος οι τρόποι, ουχί χρυσία. — Αρχαιοελληνική παροιμία 11 likes |
 | Nothing is worse than a truly bad woman, and nothing better than a truly good one. Της μεν κακής κάκιον ουδέν γίγνεται γυναικός, εσθλής δ’ ουδέν εις υπερβολήν πέφυκ’ άμεινον. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Melanippe 9 likes |
| A woman should be good for everything at home, but, out of the door, good for nothing. Ένδον μένουσαν την γυναίκα είναι χρεών εσθλήν, θύρασι δ’ αξίαν του μηδενός. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Meleager 8 likes |
 | Women are more envious and more querulous than men. Γυνή ανδρός φθονερώτερον και μεμψιμοιρότερον. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived. Because they are used to deceive. Χρήματα πορίζειν ευπορώτατον γυνή, άρχουσά τ᾽ ουκ αν εξαπατηθείη ποτέ. Αυταί γαρ εισιν εξαπατάν ειθισμέναι. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Ecclesiazusae 7 likes |
| Except for the one that gave birth to me, I hate the entire genus of women Πλην της τεκούσης, θήλυ παν μισώ γένος. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Melanippe 7 likes |
 | We can never trust women again. Επεὶ ουκέτι πιστά γυναιξίν. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey XI 6 likes |
| All evil is done because of women. Διά τας γυναίκας πάντα τα κακά γίγνεται. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 6 likes |
| Women know nothing excpet from what they want. Γυνή γαρ ουδέν οίδε πλην ό βούλεται. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 5 likes |
| The female has the will but not the strength. Το θήλυ έχει το βουλητικόν αλλ' άκυρον. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
| There is no beast like woman so untamed. Ουδέν εστι θηρίον γυναικός αμαχώτερον. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Lysistrata 4 likes |
| A woman is a woman’s natural ally. Γυνή γυναικί σύμμαχος πέφυκε πως. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Alope 4 likes |
 | Fire, woman and sea, the mighty three. Πυρ, γυνή και θάλασσα, δυνατά τρία. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 3 likes |
| Of all the things the hardest to deal with is the woman. Πάντων δυσμαχώτατον γυνή. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Oedipus 3 likes |
| You will find many machinations since you are a woman. Πολλάς αν εύροις μηχανάς, γυνή γαρ εί. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Andromache 3 likes |
 | Surely it is not for a woman to long for battle. Ούτοι γυναικός εστιν ιμείρειν μάχης. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Agamemnon 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Look for the woman [to find the cause] Cherchez la femme. 3 likes |
 | A woman's work is never done. 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | -How do you write women so well? - I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. — from the film As Good As it Gets (1997) 4 likes |
