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Woman Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt…
- A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
- Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
- No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
- Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening [to men]…
- A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
- The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
- The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -…
- A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
- To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
- The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.
- Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.
- Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
- A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
- No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.
- It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork…
- Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his…
- At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of…
- A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
- The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the…
- Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
- No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she…
- Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to…
- No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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