"The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius."

Woman, Women, Genius, Skill

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius."

Exlpore more Woman quotes

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Woman, Women, Argument, Being, Matrimony

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Woman, Years

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Woman, Women, Trade

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Woman, Women, Man, Mothers, Tragedy

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Woman, Women, Faces, Unhappiness

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Woman, Women, Politics, Politicians, Talk

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Woman, Women, Civilization, Name, Now

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Woman, Women, Women

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

Voltaire, French Writer

Woman, Women, Hate

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Woman, Women

Explore more quotes by Guy de Maupassant

"It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both."

Love, Marriage, People

"It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living."

Life, Living, Worth

"The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius."

Woman, Women, Genius, Skill

"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."

Government, War, Duty, Shipwreck

"The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom."

Life, Boredom, Shadow, Smile

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

Patriotism, Religion