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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. Henry1862–1910Roads of Destiny (1909)
- Women
Like many men, I can never find anything that I’m looking for, even when I’m actually looking at it.
Jeremy Clarksonborn 1960Sunday Times September 6, 2009
- Comedy
I deny that anyone knows, or can know, the nature of the two sexes, as long as they have only been seen in their present relation to one another.
John Stuart Mill1806–1873The Subjection of Women (1869), Ch. 1
- Women
I love men! I think men are the coolest, but you don’t really need them to live. My mom said to me, ‘You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.’ I said, ‘Mom, I am a rich man.’
Cherborn 19461996 interview with Jane Pauley for Dateline, quoted in “Taylor Swift Referenced This Iconic Cher Quote In The “You Need To Calm Down” Video” Bustle (June 17, 2019)
- Comedy
- Money
I love having boyfriends. A girl can wait for the right man to come along – but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
Cherborn 1946“Cher Genius”, an interview in You magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper (28 November 2010), interviewed by Elaine Lipworth in Las Vegas.
- Comedy
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Marriage
- Women
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XLIIn context
- Advice
- Women
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene VII, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Courage
But men are men; the best sometimes forget
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act II, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene II, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Clever Jabs
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by BeatriceIn context
- Clever Jabs
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene III, spoken by BalthasarIn context
- Truth & Lies
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by RosalindIn context
- Marriage
- Women
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Family
- Women