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Woman Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance,…
- Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life…
- So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are…
- When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle…
- Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way…
- When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
- What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
- When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money,…
- A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like…
- Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
- 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
- A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
- A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly…
- I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year
- And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them…
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- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
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- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
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