Famous Quotes & Sayings

Princess Diana

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

Publilius Syrus

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

Nellie Melba

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

Nellie Melba

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Kristen Stewart

I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

Kingsley Amis

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

Kingsley Amis

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

Oprah Winfrey

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

Oliver Herford

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

Margaret Atwood

When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

Margaret Atwood

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Margaret Thatcher

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Margaret Thatcher

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Cavendish

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

Mark Twain

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Mark Twain

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Oscar Wilde

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Oscar Wilde

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Oscar Wilde

Sphinxes without secrets.

Paris Hilton

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Lilly Ledbetter

There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.

Lillian Hellman

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

Lauren London

I’ve always been a woman of faith.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

Pablo Picasso

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Oscar Wilde

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Oscar Wilde

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

Isak Dinesen

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

Irvin S. Cobb

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.