Quotes · Skopia

23 quotes

As You Like It · 1616

★ 1.9

Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way.

Ma Joad

The Grapes of Wrath · 1940

★ 1.9

Poem

What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?

Thomas Gray

1748

★ 1.9

Magazine

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fuller

1843

★ 1.9

Essay · Political literature

What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 1.9

Novel · Historical fiction

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Virginians · 1859

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do.

Darryl Jenks

Coming to America · 1988

★ 2.0

Film · Epic (film) · Historical romance (film) · Epic · Historical romance

How fickle is woman.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind · 1939

★ 2.2

Poem

O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering upon aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott

Redgauntlet · 1808

★ 3.5

Song · Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

Women are irrational, that's all there is to that! Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags. They're nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags!

Professor Henry Higgins

My Fair Lady · 1964

★ 3.5

Play

She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.

Jean Racine

1691

★ 3.6

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On Women · 1851

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.

El Guapo

Three Amigos! · 1986

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Let me tell you a little something I've learned about women. They want you to come get them. They love it.

Garth Algar

Wayne's World · 1992

★ 3.6

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out.

Belinda (Fleabag)

Fleabag · 2019

★ 3.6

TV program · Mystery (TV) · Drama (TV) · Mystery · Drama

In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.

Dale Cooper

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 3.7

Film · Spy (film) · Action (film) · Spy · Action

I know when a woman is afraid and pretending not to be.

James Bond

Skyfall · 2012

★ 3.8

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.

Blanche DuBois

A Streetcar Named Desire · 1951

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem

A fickle and changeable thing always is woman.

Virgil

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 4.0

Letter

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Alexander Pope

Letters of Alexander Pope · 1735

★ 5.4

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