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Woman Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of…
- Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is…
- EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
- Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
- Woman absent is woman dead.
- MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
- WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
- INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
- POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,…
- WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her…
- LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
- WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness…
- QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
- DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some…
- ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but…
- A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells…
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.…
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