quotes about Good Woman
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
-- Anita BrooknerSource : Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7
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Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.
-- Dean Koontz -
Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.
-- Delano Johnson -
A good woman comes in all shapes and colors. When you find her, adore her.
-- Delano Johnson -
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.
-- Elizabeth Arden -
There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
-- Geoffrey ChaucerSource : Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
-- George BurnsSource : "It's a Great Deal, All Three of Me Think So". Book by Bruce A. Rosenblat, 2009.
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Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.
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They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
-- George Eliot -
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
-- George MeredithSource : George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.603, Library of Alexandria
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I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.
-- George ThorogoodSource : Song: Bad to the Bone
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A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
-- Helen RowlandSource : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”
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-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-
-- Janet Evanovich -
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
-- Jerome K. JeromeSource : Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
-- John Ruskin -
A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her responsibilities and that she deserves a life of greater ease and independence. But with personal revelation, she can prioritize correctly and navigate this life confidently.
-- Julie B. Beck -
It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.
-- Lyndsy FonsecaSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
-- Marcel Boulestin -
There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!
-- Margaret Way -
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
-- Marian Wright Edelman -
If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake of the defamers of the truth, refrain from writing down, speaking, or declaring it to each other? Ah! It would be too impudent to hide the talent which God has given us, we who ought to have the grace to persevere to the end. Amen!
-- Marie Dentiere -
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
-- Markus Zusak -
If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1,
-- Matt DamonSource : "Matt Damon: I Want to 'Raise My Four Girls to Be Strong Women' " by Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. October 21, 2010.
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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
-- Philip Massinger -
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
-- Queen Victoria -
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I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
-- Queen Victoria -
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
-- Richard Russo -
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
-- Robert GravesSource : Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski (1989). “Conversations with Robert Graves”, p.112, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
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deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her." When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.
-- Stephen Chbosky -
The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
-- Theda Bara -
Behind every good woman lies a trail of men.
-- Tracy BonhamSource : Song: Behind Every Good Woman, Album: Down Here, 2000
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She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.
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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
-- Adah Isaacs MenkenSource : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press
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I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.
-- Roxane Gay -