No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.