A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A woman should never be broke. She's sitting on her paycheck!”
“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron
“A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.”
Source: What Every Woman Should Know About Men
“A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.”
Source: D is for Deadbeat
“A woman should not hold on to her man so tight, afraid to let him out of sight. A woman should give her man his space but hold on to his heart”
“A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.”
“A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.”
“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
“A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.”
“A woman simply is, but a man must become.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“A woman sitting by herself is not waiting for you.”
“A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.”
“A woman,' Smithy said with a sigh when they drove away. 'It's always over a woman.'
'Hey, don't blame my breed for the stupidity of yours.”
Source: Blue Smoke
“A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.”
Source: Cool memories
“A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.”
Source: Mark Twain's notebook
“A woman steps out of the back door after an hour of him sitting. Younger than either of us, blonde with a tinge of gray at her temples, the light creases of age in the corners of her eyes, beautiful in the untouchable way of mothers who are our exemplars for what we will admire in women when we come of age.”
Source: A Creature Was Stirring
“A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safe pastures. I cannot fault any such man as takes what ease the world offers him.”
Source: The Weight of Ink
“A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.”
“A woman talks about having sex, and it's like, well, a guy got to have sex with you, so you're stupid. You've given something up.”
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.”
“A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'”
“A woman that can build can destroy.”
Source: I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!”
Source: Love's Labour's Lost
“A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.”
“A woman to suck a dick... isn't a fact or mystery or complexity... it's simplicity. You just dial a number... to order a BIATCH.. .”
“A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.”
“A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.”
“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.”
“A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.”
“A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.”
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.”
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
“A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“A woman usually wants a man who everybody likes.”
Source: WMTv17
“A woman, visible yet so invisible, whom the world thinks of as fragile, she turns that fragility into power.......”
“A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.”
Source: The Portable Walt Whitman
“A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.”
Source: The Portable Walt Whitman
“A woman walks by the gate, leading a little boy with a balloon of hunger in his belly and hair bleached by malnutrition.”
Source: Moth Smoke
“A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn't hers to command. Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn't obey us, that means it's only a deception. Don't fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don't fall for it. Its all a deception.”
“A woman warm and willing is what I'm looking for, cause the whiskey ain't working anymore.”
“A woman was and is one of God's most magnificent creations. As a matter of fact, she was His grand finale. After He fashioned Eve, creation was complete and He took a rest! God has placed in our hearts a love for beauty and a desire to be beautiful - as He defines it.”
“A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.”
“A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“A woman wearing a revealing dress will always be sexier than a naked woman.”
“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.”
Source: An Essay Upon Projects
“A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.”