Men & Women Quotes

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Dilys Laing

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Either sex alone is half itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Oscar Wilde

The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.

Oscar Wilde

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Paul Geraldy

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

Theodor Reik

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.

Rebecca West

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Marcel Proust

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

Phyllis McGinley

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Phyllis McGinley