Evasion Quote by Wilkie collins

“Pooh!" she exclaimed. "Fancy asking a woman to be reasonable!”

— E. Phillips Oppenheim

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

— George Washington

“Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.”

— Jean Giraudoux

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

— Jean Giraudoux

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end…

— H.G. Wells

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

— Leigh Hunt

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.”

— Mary Lascelles

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche