"Man is jealous because of his amour propre;……" — Germaine Greer
"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."
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128 Quotes by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer has 128 quotes on this site.
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
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A garden is the best alternative therapy.
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for…
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental…
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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only…
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As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones,…
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that…
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More Amour Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
— Aphra Behn
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Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.
— Lana Del Rey
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Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in…
— Marie Corelli
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as…
— Honore de Balzac
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over…
— Aldous Huxley
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Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll…
— Rob Sheffield
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Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields…
— Anne Rice
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...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot.…
— George Sand
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Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou
— Amelie Nothomb
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She thumped him again. He looked startled, then caught her flying fist in his hand and gently pried her fingers…
— Christine Feehan
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I gave him a smile that I hoped was as dazzling as one of his. "I realized I'm in love."…
— Richelle Mead
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Mon amour toi toujours Dans tes grands yeux rien que nous deux
— Jeff Buckley
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