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Quotes on Women and Marriage

This document contains 35 quotes from various historical figures about women and marriage. Many of the quotes are derogatory, sexist, or promote outdated stereotypes about gender roles. They portray women as inferior, the property of men, only good for childbearing, or as an undesirable burden. Some quotes view marriage in a cynical or humorously negative light, as an undesirable institution, or something that reduces happiness and freedom.

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Quotes on Women and Marriage

This document contains 35 quotes from various historical figures about women and marriage. Many of the quotes are derogatory, sexist, or promote outdated stereotypes about gender roles. They portray women as inferior, the property of men, only good for childbearing, or as an undesirable burden. Some quotes view marriage in a cynical or humorously negative light, as an undesirable institution, or something that reduces happiness and freedom.

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Famous quotes about women and marriage

1. "When a woman becomes a scholar there is usually something wrong with her
sexual organs."
Friedrich Nietzsche

2. "As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she
is perfectly satisfied."
Oscar Wilde

3. "Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now


centuries behind man."
Thomas Edison

4. "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."


Grover Cleveland, Former US President (1905)

5. "Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilt and I'll show you a man."
Erica Jong

6. "Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property."


Napolean Bonaparte

7. "Women are nothing but machines for producing children."


Napolean Bonaparte

8. "An archaeologist is best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the
more interested he is in her."
Agatha Christie

9. "Women are like elephants. Everyone likes to look at them but no-one likes to
have to keep one."
WC Fields

10. "My wife is the sort of woman who gives necrophillia a bad name."
Patrick Murray

11. "Women should be obscene and not heard."


Groucho Marx

12. "Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking."


Rupert Hughes

13. "Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the
neighbours seeing."
Sean Williamson

14. "Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health
Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account,
confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'."
Jeffrey Bernard
15. "A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."
Groucho Marx

16. "Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."
HL Mencken

17. "When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I
shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, 'Do what you
like now'."
Leo Tolstoy

18. "Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling
out an eel."
Leonardo Di Vinci

19. "I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give
her a house."
Lewis Grizzard

20. "I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second
one didn't."
Patrick Murray

21. "The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-
seven for men."
Aristotle

22. "I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife."
Tony Curtis

23. "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a
restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and
dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henry Youngman

24. "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was
too late."
Max Kaufman

25. "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
Oscar Wilde

26. "Dammit sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't be always living for
pleasure."
Oscar Wilde

27. "Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give
you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the
wrong house, that's what it means."
George Burns

28. "Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."
Groucho Marx
29. "When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep
her."
Sacha Guitry

30. "The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be
married, and the married wish to be dead."
Ann Landers

31. "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if
not, you'll become a philosopher."
Socrates

32. "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she
stops to breathe."
Jimmy Durante

33. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet."
Mae West

34. "It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
Spike Milligan

35. "Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage."


Ambrose Bierce

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