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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.


William Makepeace Thackeray

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'Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
DAVID MARKSON Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and ...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
ROBERT BROWNING 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
ROBERT BROWNING What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD BYRON O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. Hari -William M. Thackeray.
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
WASHINGTON IRVING O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! -Measure for Measure. Act iii. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOORE The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil. but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ...
FREDERICK BAILES Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he...
FREDERICK BAILES Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOORE People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intellige...
ANDRE MAUROIS Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perver...
ERNESTINE ROSE I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart ma...
HELEN ROWLAND Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and ...
HELEN ROWLAND The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING [He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's ...
MARILYN MANSON Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR Dont ever underestimate a woman that may have eyes of an angel and beauty like that of a goddess bec...
PATRICE TILLMON I like to pose the question to myself: Am I a man who thinks he's an Angel or an Angel who thinks he...
MARILYN MANSON The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what...
EDWIN A. ROBINSON For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what...
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
SEX AND THE CITY The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
GEORGE JAMES Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEY Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA May it never be a footprint that you shall ever say maybe in May. May it instead be a footprint that...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH [That little man in black says] woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman...
SOJOURNER TRUTH One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indi...
SAROJINI NAIDU A man may keep his heart encased in stone but despite his best efforts a woman can steal it whenever...
E.R. ROCK A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet ther...
NATASHA LITTLE Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly...
CHLOE THURLOW Underwear is the female second skin.
CHLOE THURLOW When you undress a woman you discover in her lingerie clues to her mood and desires. These whispers ...
CHLOE THURLOW When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way...
EMILY POST So few grown women like their lives
KATHARINE GRAHAM Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM You touch a screen to turn off lights in a room or activate the alarm system. The home owner can als...
GEORGE JAMES Women are looking for good father material. He can mention the fact that he knows how to coach Littl...
LORI GOTTLIEB A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
BARRY HANNAH Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a suff...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do...
VIRGIL The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to d...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ...
SYLVIA PLATH Master Michelangelo once said that ‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free....
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what the...
ESTELLE PARSONS I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso...
DEBORAH KERR Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the...
MARGUERITE DURAS Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's th...
MARGUERITE DURAS Married love between a man & woman, man & man and woman & woman is an oaths based on unconditional l...
EDWARD SQUIRE Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes cha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving ho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter...
MINNA ANTRIM I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectu...
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive ...
JOAQUIN MILLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfie...
EDWARD YOUNG We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
MARGARET ATWOOD The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

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WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY