Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
Of the two lots, the woman’s lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man’s of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man’s.
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
A man has no business to marry a woman who can’t make him miserable. It means she can’t make him happy.
The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...
I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else.
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
You know well I couldn’t bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it’s wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.