William Wycherley Quotes

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

William Wycherley

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Wife

• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Real
  • History

• I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Reputation
  • Stingy

• I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Live
  • Why

• It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Together

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• 'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Honor

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • American
  • Fun

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

  

  Imelda May
  • Women
  • Think
  • Like

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• I have to tell you I am losing a little patience with what appears to me to be an almost pathological obsession with calling into question the actions of men and women who are on the front lines of the war on terror.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Men
  • Question
  • Actions

• I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

  

  Sam Walter Foss

• I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Single
  • Moments
  • Made

• Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life

• Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.

  

  David Deida
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Feeling

• Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Men
  • Women
  • Honor