Model Alexis Skye with publisher Ed Trice
The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side. William Mc Fee
Woman have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will is right; that which they reject is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral. Henri Adams
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else. G. K. Chesterton
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel
It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. Somerset Maugham
Here’s to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. Ambrose Bierce
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. John Mason Brown
Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead, content in the tight hot cell of their hearts; to eat dusty bread. Louise Bogan
Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don’t have to sew buttons. Heywood Broun
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. Elizabeth Bowen
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. George Jean Nathan
The females of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. Don Marquis
Women, who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understanding. Lord Chesterfield
Ugly girls may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them. Anatole France
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies. Gelett Burgess
Females have simple tastes. They can get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. H. L. Mencken
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight. Charles Caleb Colton
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. O. Henry
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. Adlai Stevenson
Women are better than they are reputed to be; they don’t mock the tears men shed, unless they themselves are responsible for them. Georges Courteline
The entire being of a female is a secret that should be kept. Unknown
Men know so little about us women. We’ve a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us. Henry Becque
Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming. Ovid
When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of that mighty member, when she sheathes her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Henry Adams
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. Washington Irving
It’s absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag
God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose’s thorns when we gather it; and the other’s when we have had it for some time. Walter Savage Landor
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. George Bernard Shaw
Where neither love nor hate is in the game, the female’s game is mediocre. Nietzsche
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both. Lawrence Durrell
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself. Jean Kerr
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman’s code. Gelett Burgess
It is charm a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have. J. M. Barrie
What a life we men lead! Either bachelors or cuckolds; what a choice! Henry Becque
Women are not men’s equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are simply different races. Phyllis Mc Ginley
If a woman wants to hold a man, she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. We make gods of them, and they leave us. Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful. Oscar Wilde
There’s nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense. Thornton Wilder
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. Theodor Reik
The bachelor’s admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. George Jean Nathan
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. Alexander Pope
Women are quite unlike men. They have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand. Stephen Potter
