Ambrose Bierce Quotes on Woman (19 Quotes)

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul in woman, the outlet of the heart.

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times each day.