Top 100 For She Quotes
#1. My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart.
Tyne O'Connell
#2. Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.
Guy De Maupassant
#3. No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
Ihara Saikaku
#4. There was something about being cared for," she thought. Something magical.
Ted Naifeh
#5. It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.
Christopher Dawson
#6. Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.
Dean Koontz
#7. When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Baltasar Gracian
#8. Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.
George Eliot
#9. If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
Madeleine L'Engle
#10. Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.
Harriet Hosmer
#11. For a moment ... I might have been the daughter she'd hoped for ... she might have been my teacher and my guide ... We might never have been enemies at all.
Naomi Novik
#12. Love and honor thy Mother, for she is the fruit that gives thou life.
Dave Pelzer
#13. Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
W. H. Auden
#14. A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.
H.L. Mencken
#15. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying
what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.
Virginia Woolf
#16. He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King
#17. That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this ... why? Because you're fond of helping others?"
"I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.
Vivian Vande Velde
#18. Thus, with no one to advise her - for she could advise with no one without seeming to complain against him - gentle Florence tossed on an uneasy sea of doubt and hope; and Mr. Carker, like a scaly monster of the deep, swam down below, and kept his shining eye upon her.
Charles Dickens
#19. him, for she thought it was the respectful thing to do.
Leona Fox
#20. It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her.
Kate Morton
#21. My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.
Sinovuyo Nkonki
#22. For she had embodied the Great Perhaps
she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.
John Green
#23. It was the last night that she would
breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless,
eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.
Hans Christian Andersen
#24. For she was his secret treasure, she was his shame and his bliss. And a chain and a keep are nothing, compared to a woman's kiss.
George R R Martin
#25. poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
Lewis Carroll
#26. She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning.
Elizabeth Cadell
#27. I need you," he said against her mouth.
"What're you waiting for?" she replied.
Lizzy Ford
#28. Honor your wife by fulfilling your commitment to be faithful, for she has already honored you by believing that you will.
Ilya Atani
#29. For she could never think of anything to say to Clarissa, though she liked her. She had lots of fine qualities; but they had nothing in common - she and Clarissa.
Virginia Woolf
#30. Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.
Bobby Sands
#31. His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign
For she would be Queen of Lumatere.
But he would be king to her.
Melina Marchetta
#32. She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.
Rachel Klein
#33. Sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.
Ayn Rand
#34. Anything is possible for she who believes. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Jeanette Coron
#35. The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented.
Kate Morton
#36. Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
#37. Perhaps she did more than anyone else, for she slapped the King and put him to bed without his tea,
E. Nesbit
#38. The sons of Dior and Nimloth were Elured and Elurin; and a daughter also was born to them, and she was named Elwing, which is Star-spray, for she was born on a night of stars, whose light glittered in the spray of the waterfall of Lanthir Lamath beside her father's house.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. Well, what are we waiting for? ... She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.
Donita K. Paul
#40. And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't touched hers, but it might as well have, for she had felt his heat.
Brenda Joyce
#41. But just the same, she dared not allow her mind to look up, for she sensed that the tattered images of her dreams were still hung high on the masts of her consciousness like the ragged remainders of sails flapping after a storm.
Edward Docx
#42. She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men
Arthur Schopenhauer
#43. For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.
D.H. Lawrence
#44. Immediately he surprised her, for she like the way he kissed, like a man who wanted to swallow life.
Toby Barlow
#45. Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name?
Toni Morrison
#46. He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.
J.M. Barrie
#47. The smoke is a signal; it means the Salamander is coming. For she is a war-torn disaster, and her comfort is the gun.
R.R. Washburn
#48. For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health.
Anonymous
#49. And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind.
Sandra Kring
#51. One side of the road:
She said to his Him: You are the man I prayed for
Another side of the road:
He said to his Her: You are the woman I prayed for. She wasn't as beautiful as you are.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#52. I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home.
Anthony De Mello S.J.
#53. America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
John Philip Sousa
#54. No great stars above her. Only a blackness that hurt to look at. Had the distant suns abandoned their birthplace? Earth was dying and the stars were gone like adulterous celestial lovers seeking a new terrestrial mate. She did not blame them. We were never worth shining for, she thought.
C.J. Anderson
#55. The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#56. I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
Edward Young
#57. ... It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free of any earthly tie, and cares so little, but so marvelously, for life.
Andre Breton
#58. Even Orlando (who had no conceit of her person) knew it, for she smiled the involuntary smile which women smile when their own beauty, which seems not their own, forms like a drop falling or a fountain rising and confronts them all of a sudden in the glass.
Virginia Woolf
#59. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
#60. Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
To fill the world with vicious qualities.
William Shakespeare
#61. Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently.
"Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half.
"Lieutenant colonel," he sputtered.
James Patterson
#62. Some men call her cyanide
For she'll cause and take your pain.
To others she's the devil
Or the quest for true love's bane,
And, to those less lucky,
She's called their ball and chain.
Phar West Nagle
#63. Wonderful power the Silver Shoes gave her. So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, I can still make her my slave, for she does not know how
L. Frank Baum
#64. A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them
Christina Dodd
#65. If I am peaceful, I shall seeBeauty's face continually;Feeding on her wine and breadI shall be wholly comforted,For she can make one day for meRich as my lost eternity.
Sara Teasdale
#66. Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
Hafez
#67. We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Guy Finley
#68. Her face might be kindly if she would smile. But the frown isn't personal: it's the red dress she disapproves of, and what it stands for. She thinks I may be catching, like a disease or any form of bad luck.
Margaret Atwood
#69. One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.
Angela Carter
#70. She didn't know where the factory was, but she didn't need to - the city unfolded itself before her just as every other vision had, directing her toward Emery Thane, for she ran through the secrets of his heart.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#71. For she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
Louisa May Alcott
#73. She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#74. Beshrew me but I love her heartily, For she is wise, if I can judge of her, And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true, And true she is, as she hath proved herself: And therefore like herself, wise, fair, and true, Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
William Shakespeare
#75. She was in a terrible state, for she found that she could neither take her eyes off him nor look at him.
James Baldwin
#76. The farmhouse itself no longer looked like a beast about to spring. (Not that it ever had, to her, for she was not in the habit of thinking that things looked exactly like other things which were as different from them in appearance as it was possible to be.)
Stella Gibbons
#77. Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
W. Somerset Maugham
#78. Didn't she know that she would always be the most beautiful woman he had ever seen,for she was the first to truly see him?
Michele Sinclair
#79. Haven't you enough money?'
For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.
Stella Gibbons
#80. To be great, be entire:
Of what is yours nothing
exaggerate or exclude
Be whole in each thing. Put all that you are
Into the least you do
Like that on each place the whole moon
Shines for she lives aloft.
Fernando Pessoa
#81. It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#82. I loved her, for she was beauty dressed in a selfless personality and the skin of unconditional love. A voice of truthful melody and eyes holding a vision so large, maybe, just maybe she was born to change the world.
Nikki Rowe
#83. With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing - for she had done mischief.
Jane Austen
#84. For she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.
Vladimir Nabokov
#85. My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
Gelett Burgess
#86. We dare not harm this little girl," he said to them, "for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil. All we can do is carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch and leave her there.
L. Frank Baum
#87. What are you looking for?" she asked abruptly. "It's rather rude for a gentleman to enter a lady's room without permission."
"I'm not a gentleman."
"Really? I thought otherwise.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#88. Rakes, those male Magdalenes, have a secret feeling of innocence similar to that which female Magdalenes have, based on the same hope of forgiveness. 'All will be forgiven her, for she loved much; and all will be forgiven him, for he enjoyed much.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. Precancer?' she had repeated quietly, for she was a quiet woman. 'Isn't that ... like life?
Lorrie Moore
#91. She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.
Angela Carter
#92. Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.
Rebecca Carson
#93. For she was a creature of odd whims and unsatisfied tendencies.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. A flush of anger crimsoned the old lady's pale face. It looked dead no longer. "Hold your tongue," she said. "You are rude." And Miss Gladwyn did hold her tongue, but nothing else, for she was laughing all over.
George MacDonald
#95. Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
All women in the magic of her locks;
And when she winds them round a young man's neck,
She will not ever set him free again.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.
David Liss
#97. Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.
R. Scott Bakker
#98. They would be together always. Soul mates. He would never be alone. Never get lost in madness, for she would never fail to find him and bring him back.
Karen Marie Moning
#99. She insisted on Knight for her last name. It made her feel strong and bold. A name of armor. For she would defend herself in this new life.
Libba Bray
#100. She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty
Dorothy Parker
