Famous Quotes

"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Henri Frederic Amiel on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

• "I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

• "Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."

• "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

• "Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion."

• "To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."