Women Quotes

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion. ~ The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray The task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women. ~ The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith There she plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ~ Strictly Business by O. Henry A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power. ~ Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith She would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. ~ Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood. ~ The Crime of The Brigadier by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none." ~ What Every Woman Knows by James M. Barrie When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground. ~ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot "I will not retire," cried Kate, with flashing eyes and the red blood mantling in her cheeks. "You will do him no hurt that he will not repay. You may use force with me; I think you will, for I am a girl, and that would well become you. But if I have a girl's weakness, I have a woman's heart, and it is not you who in a cause like this can turn that from its purpose." ~ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens