Quotes · Skopia

23 quotes

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Topic·Nature of women✕clear

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

O fairest of Creation, last and best Of all God's works.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.8

Philosophical literature

In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 6.5

That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 5.5

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Letters of Alexander Pope · 1735

★ 5.4

Poem · Epic poem

A fickle and changeable thing always is woman.

Aeneid · 19 BC

★ 4.0

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

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

A Streetcar Named Desire · 1951

★ 3.9

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

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

Skyfall · 2012

★ 3.8

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

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

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 3.7

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

How fickle is woman.

Gone with the Wind · 1939

★ 2.2

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.

Coming to America · 1988

★ 2.0

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

1748

★ 1.9

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

Margaret Fuller

1843

★ 1.9

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