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Quotes About Woman

There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.
~ Hugh Laurie
A nut is good if broken, a women if beaten.
~ Hungarian proverb
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
~ Iain Pears
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
~ Ian Hislop
How is it, O wonderful TAOS girl," declaimed Courtney Hall, "that this best possible world of happiness and painlessness is so fragile that one little nip at its ankles by one woman, one yulp, one cartoonist, can set the whole thing teetering and tottering?
~ Unknown
A bird-of-paradise woman paused in her flight to be astounded. "Yah, you stupid or something? That's the Love Police, you know?" "The what?" "Fug! You are stupid! Never heard of West One?
~ Unknown
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
~ Idries Shah
Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it.
~ Idries Shah
La visión de Dios en la mujer es la más perfecta de todas." Ibn el Arabi
~ Idries Shah
They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white pony.
~ Colin Falconer
Emm vacillated between shock and laughter. "Must be a Texas Ranger motto; instead of 'one riot, one ranger,' 'see a woman you like, arrest her
~ Unknown
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
~ Colley Cibber
People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.
~ Connie Willis
They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election.
~ Unknown
She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is—a cat!" But that was not how his mind saw her—quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding. Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?
~ Cordwainer Smith
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Replacing the girl reading the book on the porch was this beautiful, closed-off, honest, waiting-to-be-cracked open woman who challenged his contentment simply by living her life. He didn't want to be challenged. He was just fine with the status quo. Why did she have to go around inspiring him? It was not what he'd signed up for.
~ Unknown
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
~ Craig Ferguson
a beautiful, intelligent woman with a body like Salome and a mouth like a saltwater crocodile.
~ Craig Johnson
What has started you on this?" I asked. "We were talking about the holidays." "Los Angeles is not a safe place for a young woman alone. I feel it in my bones." "That's your arthritis, Aunt Sadie. Do you want me to get a gun? I'd probably shoot myself in the foot." "I'd rather you got married again." "That might be worse than shooting myself in the foot.
~ Unknown
The woman's essence has always been the most powerful force, much like nature has always been Satan's church
~ Unknown
It would be much easier to entertain the Queen Mother, who is really grand, than a woman like Lady Fotheringay Massington who only thinks she's grand . . . and it would much more pleasant.
~ D.E. Stevenson