Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

James Russell Lowell

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

Laurence J. Peter

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

Friedrich Schiller

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

George Farquhar

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

George Farquhar

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

George Farquhar

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

George Gilder

Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

Johnny Vegas

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

Luigi Pirandello

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Luigi Pirandello

Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Emmeline Pankhurst

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

But all ladies think they weigh too much.

Norman Mailer

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

Orson Welles

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Octave Mirbeau

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

Ntozake Shange

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Ellen Key

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

Ellen Glasgow

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Ellen Glasgow

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Ellen DeGeneres

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

Casey Wilson

I want to see a ton more comedy for women.

It's women only and that makes them really comfortable.

Harry Reid

They couldn't go for her because she was an independent woman.

Nancy Pelosi

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

Nellie Melba

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Nellie Melba

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Nelson DeMille

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.