Quotes from Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.