Minna Antrim quotes:

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  • A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

  • That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

  • Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

  • Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

  • Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

  • Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

  • The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

  • The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

  • The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

  • Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

  • A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

  • Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

  • Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast

  • The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

  • Brew me a cup for a winter's night. For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; Spice it with love and stir it with care, And I'll toast our bright eyes, my sweetheart fair.

  • A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

  • To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

  • Man proposes, woman forecloses.

  • When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

  • Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.

  • Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

  • Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

  • Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

  • Smiles are the soul's kisses.

  • To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

  • There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering

  • There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

  • An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

  • It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

  • Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

  • The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

  • To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

  • To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

  • To money, the finest linguist in the world!

  • We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

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