Men & Women quotes

Men & Women quotes by Mae West

Also about
Play of Words, Flirting
When a girl goes wrong, men go right... after her. You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction... but the second meeting shows up new angles.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Friedrich Nietzsche
(also about
Philosophy)

Men & Women quotes by George Eliot

Also about
Wife, Passion, Affection
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. Francois Voltaire
(also about
Emotions, Reason)

Men & Women quotes by Marilyn Monroe

Also about
Equality, Sincerity, Love, Relationships, Unity
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings. A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man. Sigmund Freud
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo
(also about
Love)

Men & Women quotes by George Gordon Byron

Also about
Women, Tyranny, Friendship, Love, Sexism
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant. What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves. But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Men & Women quotes by Agatha Christie

Also about
Humour, Husband, Women
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher
(also about
Feminism, Action, Words)
Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. Woody Allen
(also about
Relationships)

Men & Women quotes by Anonymous

Also about
Love, Sex
Men never remember, but women never forget. Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. William Shakespeare

Men & Women quotes by Coco Chanel

Also about
Sexism
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. Charles Dickens
(also about
Love, Relationships, Luck)

Men & Women quotes by Faina Ranevskaya

Also about
Humour, Age, Marriage, Love, Relationships, Faith, Adultery, Women, Money
A real man is the one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is.
A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband. God created women beautiful – so that men can love them – and stupid – so that they can love men. Union of stupid men and stupid women leads to mother-heroine.
Union of stupid women and clever men raises the mother alone.
Union of smart women and foolish men creates a normal family.
Union of intelligent men and women leads to easy flirt. - I've killed 5 flies today: two males and three females.
- How were you able to figure that out?
- Two of them were sitting on the beer bottle, and three - on the mirror. - Believe it or not, but the only man who has ever kissed me is my fiance.
- So are you bragging or complaining about it, dear? The myth that women need only money, came up with men who haven't...

Men & Women quotes by Marlene Dietrich

Also about
Relationships, Forgiveness, Interest
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long. A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them. Jon Voight
(also about
Intuition, Logic)
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool. George Washington
(also about
Foolishness)

Men & Women quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Also about
Relationships, Marriage, Love, Understanding, Mediocrity, Sexism, Separation, Feminism, Slavery
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other. ...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Men & Women quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

Also about
Relationships, Love, Women, Jealousy, Value, Desire, Behaviour
Mark this one thing my boy: never, never, never can a man make himself ridiculous in the eyes of a woman by anything he may do on her account. Not even by the most childish performances. Do anything you like, stand on your head, talk the most utter twaddle, swank like a peacock, sing under her window - anything at all but one thing: don't be matter of fact, don't be sensible. A woman who is desired by someone else, even a love-starved coffinmaker, immediately becomes more precious than before. Man, as it happens, lives by relative rather than absolute values. A woman becomes smarter when she is in love whereas a man loses his mind.

Men & Women quotes by Stendhal

Also about
Sexism, Age, Women
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Men & Women quotes by Virginia Woolf

Also about
Interest, Feminism, History, Opposition, Women's rights
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. Muriel Spark
(also about
Literature, Humour)
Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that. Shakira
(also about
Men)
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. Leo Tolstoy

Men & Women quotes by Ian Fleming

Also about
Humanity, Emotions, Relationships, Indifference, Sex, Feminism, Society, Femininity, Control, Ego
I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. Charles Bukowski
(also about
Psychology, Character)
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough. Theodore Dreiser
(also about
Relationships, Hatred)
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. Charles Baudelaire
(also about
Relationships)

Men & Women quotes by Jane Austen

Also about
Fortune, Marriage
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. Jack Kerouac
(also about
Forgiveness)

Men & Women quotes by Sylvia Plath

Also about
Prejudice, Sexism
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Joseph Conrad
(also about
Women)

Men & Women quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Also about
Relationships, Marriage, Sexism, Influence
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Charlotte Bronte
(also about
Understanding, Illusion)
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. George Bernard Shaw
(also about
Marriage, Character)