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- When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Pygmalion" (1913)
- When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Every woman knows all about everything.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), The Eye of Allah (1926)
- Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), The Corsair (1814)
- We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
- Possession is eleven points in the law.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Woman's Wit, Act 1
- A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), (attributed)
- Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
- Robertson Davies
- Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
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