John Fowles Quote

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Kevin Costner

• Affairs

I love men who make me laugh.

Nastassja Kinski

• Man
• Love

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Niels Bohr

• Seriousness

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

• Man
• Love
• Woman

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

Michael Douglas

• Woman

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Carmen Electra

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Coco Chanel

• Woman

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Saul Bellow

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

Calvin Klein

• Love
• Woman

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde

• Woman

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

• Woman

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

• Woman
• Friendship

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Giacomo Casanova

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Adriana Lima

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Maya Angelou

• Woman

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Aristotle

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Billie Jean King

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honore de Balzac

• Woman
• Suffering