Women Quotes - Page 54
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271
Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
Harold Robbins (1985). “The Inheritors”, Pocket
Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin
Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.17, The Floating Press
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
"Heartbreak House".
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
"The Death of the Heart". Book by Elizabeth Bowen, 1938.
Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.143, Penguin