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Women Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindlyplant was introduced among us. Why myriads of women have cried over it,…
- 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…
- Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
- All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
- The best of women are hypocrites.
- 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,…
- Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that…
- 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…
- Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
- 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.
- ...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
- 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…
More Women Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood