I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence

She is very ambitious” is not a compliment in our culture.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

"The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, none of us dare to deal with him if we suspect "false weights and measures.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.