"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

Woman, Blush, Defiance, Shame

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."

Exlpore more Woman quotes

"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."

Geoffrey Beene, American Designer

Woman, Women, Fashion

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Woman,

"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Woman, Women, Purpose, Party

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

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Woman, Women

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Woman, Women, Company, Talk

"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Kate Millett, American Activist

Woman, Women

"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Woman, Act, Character, Man, Men

"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

Kate Millett, American Activist

Woman, Women, Ending, Revolution, Oppression

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Woman, Women, Truth

"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

Woman, Compliment, Expression, Indifference

Explore more quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars."

Politics

"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."

Love

"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."

Crime

"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."

Man

"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."

Caution

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."

Art

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Army

"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."

Friendship

"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."

Thought

"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."

Pleasure