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For a woman, forty is torture, the end. I think turning forty is miserable.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Kelly (1969) in interview with William B. Arthur. Cited in: James Spada (1988) Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. p. 280
- Age
- Women
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heart
- Men
Every woman knows all about everything.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Eye of Allah
- Women
Four things greater than all things are,⁠—
Women and Horses and Power and War.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Other works
- War & Peace
- Women
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Female of the Species, Stanza 1 (1911).
- Women
For the colonel’s lady an’ Judy O’Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
- Women
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
- Women
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And⁠—which is more⁠—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936If— (1910)In context
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Ballad of East and West (1889)In context
- Courage
- Men
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023The New York Times (January 19, 1971). See Michael C. Thomsett and Jean Freestone Thomsett War and Conflict Quotations: A Worldwide Dictionary of Pronouncements from Military Leaders, Politicians, Philosophers, Writers and Others Jefferson, NC & Lond
No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
- Men
- Women
Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the new repulsion, always different, always new.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1929)
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
Gloria Leonard1940–2014
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Pilgrim’s Regress
- Love
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man (1943), Ch. I
- Men