Woman Quotes

And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke.

An honest woman ought to be in a financial condition such as forbids her lover to think she will ever cost him anything.[Une femme honnête doit avoir une existence pécuniaire qui permette à son amant de penser qu’elle ne lui sera jamais à charge d’aucune manière.]

An honest woman is one whom her lover fears to compromise.[Une femme honnête est celle que l’on craint de compromettre.]

An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.[Une femme honnête est essentiellement mariée.]

An accident is sometimes an unhappy woman’s best friend.

All the sensations which a woman yields to her lover, she gives in exchange; they return to her always intensified; they are as rich in what they give as in what they receive. This is the kind of commerce in which almost all husbands end by being bankrupt.[Toutes les sensations qu’une femme apporte à son amant, elle les échange; elles lui reviennent toujours plus fortes; elles sont aussi riches de ce qu’elles ont donné que de ce qu’e lles ont reçu. C’est un commerce où presque tous les maris finissent par faire banqueroute.]

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

Alas, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless!

A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you’ll learn that soon enough… and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all.

A woman’s thought is endowed with incredible elasticity. When she receives a knockdown blow, she bends, seems crushed, and then renews her natural shape in a given time.[La pensée d’une femme est douce d’une incroyable élasticité: quand elle reçoit un coup d’assommoir, elle plie, paraît écrasée, et reprend sa forme dans un temps donné.]

A woman’s life begins with her first passion.[La vie d’une femme commence à sa première passion.]

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.