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| That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. | | William Shakespeare | |
| The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant | | John Steinbeck | |
| The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
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| The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. | | Honore de Balzac | |
| The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. | | John Steinbeck | |
| The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man; neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for a man | | Bertrand Russell | |
| The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep | | Wilson Mizner | |
| The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. | | Douglas Jerrold | |
| The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run | | John Barrymore | |
| The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him | | Helen Rowland | |
| The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away - A man who's untrue to his wife | | W. H. Auden | |
| There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail | | Mark Twain | |
| Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer | | Honore de Balzac | |
