Gender Quotes

Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is one thing no man can do, and that is to get a woman to listen to reason. Somehow or other, they don’t seem to have any kind of sense.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women… merely adored.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush!

Men have courage – one knows that, but they are more easily deceived than women.

Men err from selfishness; women, because they are weak.[Alternate translation:]When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.[Quand les hommes ont tort, c’est par dureté; quand les femmes ont tort, c’est par faiblesse.]

The history of the life of women is an episode in that of men.[Also known as:]Love is the whole history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in a man’s.[L’amour est l’histoire de la vie des femmes; c’est un épisode dans celle des hommes.]

I’m sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. “The modern girl has a thoroughly business-like attitude towards life” That sort of thing. It’s not a bit true! Some girls are business-like and some aren’t. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains. Sex only matters where sex is directly concerned.

I see when men love women they give them but a little of their lives, but women when they love give everything.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.