A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”
“A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.”
“A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet
“A woman with strong character can be easily labelled as a bossy *itch while her male counterpart is a firm leader, only a woman can be punished for being ambitious while a male colleague ambition is a great box 9 talent demonstration”
“A woman with super long platinum blonde hair, a fake tan, injected bubble gum pink lips, and a large boob job came in. Phoebe showed her where to set up in front of us and we all sat patiently.
"Hello, I’m Tandy" I almost rolled my eyes at her name, given her appearance. She placed a case on the coffee table in front of us, opened it, and pulled out rubber penises. I almost shot my drink out of my nose, again. "I will be instructing you on proper blow job technique."
"Oh my God, Phoebe." I shouted at her.
"Yeah," Viola clapped her hands and reached out to be the first to get a rubber practice penis.”
Source: Save the Date
“a woman with the right support system can take over the world”
“A WOMAN WITHOUT A BRAIN IS LIKE A GUN WITHOUT A BULLET...
JUST A TOY.”
“A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.”
“A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.”
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
“A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.”
Source: The Queen Pedauque: Works by France
“A woman without paint is like food without salt.”
“A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.”
“A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.”
“a woman would have to be a blind lesbian nun to not be affected by him.”
Source: There Are No Men
“A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.”
“A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.”
“A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.”
“A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.”
“A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.”
“A woman writer, except in rare instances, has no protection such as enjoyed by men who use their wives and mistresses as a marline to save themselves from the wear and tear of interruption.”
“A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.”
“A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.”
Source: Poetical works
“A woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.”
Source: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
“A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.”
Source: Prose Fancies (Complete)
“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”
Source: Clea
“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”
“A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.”
“A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.”
Source: Character
“A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.”
“A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health.”
“A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!”
Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel
“A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.”
“A woman's body works as if it knew something she didn't, and does not have her best interests at heart. If you need to look your best it will deliver you a pimple; if you don't want it to, your period will start early; if you want a baby badly your body refuses to give you one; if you are content in your life, lo, you are pregnant.”
“A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.”
“A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“A woman's counsel brought us first to woe,
And made her man his paradise forego,
Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been
As free from sorrow as he was from sin.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.”
“A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.”
Source: Headhunting In The Solomon Islands: Around The Coral Sea
“A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
“A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”
“A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.”
“A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.”
“A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.”
“A woman's fitness comes by fits.”
Source: Cymbeline
“A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.”
“A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge