The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived

Quote by George James

Topics: Mary Ritter Beard Quotes

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will...

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will...

The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.

The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a...

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a...

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one...

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one...

The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on...

The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on...

I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves...

I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves...

When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my...

When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my...

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by...

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of...

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of...

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but...

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but...

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and...

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function,...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function,...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way...

Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man...

Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man...

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense...

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense...

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a...

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a...

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.