Top 100 Quotes About A Good Woman
#1. A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H.L. Mencken
#2. Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.
Joanna Lumley
#3. A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#4. You can't ask for much more than that - a good woman and a story to tell.
David Levithan
#5. Deep down ... she's a good woman ... you should be proud of her. When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.
Stephen Chbosky
#6. Only a fool would turn away the love of a good woman, and I was no longer a fool.
Christin Lovell
#7. A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
Marcel Boulestin
#8. Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
Philippa Gregory
#9. Because I am your favourite grandson, and you love me more than all of my brothers."
"Nyet. You are the most frustrating of my grandsons. Find a good woman, marry her, have children - then you will be my favourite."
"Perhaps I shall settle for second favourite. What would that take?
Karen Hawkins
#10. Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
Ezra Taft Benson
#11. sometimes you just need the company of a good woman", and by that he meant his wife, because by that she made him laugh and not take himself so seriously.
-Ben Stuart, citing Martin Luther.
Ben Stuart
#12. Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a monstrous, cannibalistic giant, who is, however, vanquished, because a good woman, who happily knows how to avert disaster, stands ready to help.
Jack D. Zipes
#13. Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.
Fay Weldon
#14. I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.
Evangeline Lilly
#15. Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked
Laurell K. Hamilton
#16. Getting a woman into power is not the point - it's getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does.
Philippa Gregory
#17. You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won't be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out.
Marian Keyes
#19. A good woman's love can change even the angriest of men," he said with an easy grin. "And I had my brothers. I grew tired of holding all that rage. It was exhausting. Love, on the other hand, can give you strength when you think you have no more, and hope when there is none.
Donna Grant
#20. What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#21. A good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#23. Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.
Murray Morgan
#24. An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
Markus Zusak
#25. Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.
Dean Koontz
#27. No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Godfrey Winn
#28. Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.
Claire Keegan
#30. In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
#32. God doesn't give a man anything more precious than a good woman.
Alice Randall
#33. In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature. There
Jack London
#34. I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.
Richard Russo
#35. We are all unworthy of a good woman's love," I answered. "But, thank Heaven, the good women don't seem to realise it.
Catherine Louisa Pirkis
#36. Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.
George Burns
#37. I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.
Roxane Gay
#38. Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
Elbert Hubbard
#39. My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman.
Graham Greene
#40. Dear God in Heaven, I've been a good woman. When I die, all I want is Humphrey Bogart and Matt Damon feeding me grapes, all day long.
Kelly Harms
#41. Empty promises can kill a good woman. She may still breathe, but inside her heart will be dead. I'm
Emily Minton
#42. Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.
Audrey Hepburn
#43. A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
Saadi
#44. A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.
Sister Souljah
#45. Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower."
Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!
Bryce Courtenay
#46. Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
Socrates
#47. -You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.-
-A good woman could do that.-
-She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-
Janet Evanovich
#48. My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.
Miles Franklin
#49. I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns
#51. I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?
Angelina Jolie
#52. Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.
Coretta Scott King
#53. They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
George Eliot
#54. A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
Jerome K. Jerome
#55. A good woman is like a campfire; if you don't tend to her and keep her flame bright, she'll go out on you.
Sean D. Brennan
#56. Five things make a man happy," I told him, "a good ship, a good sword, a good hound, a good horse, and a woman." "Not a good woman?" Finan asked, amused. "They're all good," I said, "except when they're not, and then they're better than good.
Bernard Cornwell
#57. To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
Norman Mailer
#58. Learned some things in my life, Duchess, one of the most important, you find a good woman, you take care of her.
Kristen Ashley
#59. Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.
Delano Johnson
#60. A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
Helen Rowland
#61. Again, speaking for the sisterhood, if you gave all that devotion and loyalty to a woman and she was a good woman, I swear, honey, you will live every day for the rest of your life until your dying breath never regretting it.
Kristen Ashley
#62. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.
Toni Morrison
#63. Gary has made the classic mistake of equating precise cheekbones, perfect breasts, and a vague association with philanthropy as the signs of a good woman.
Matthew Norman
#64. She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
Flannery O'Connor
#65. Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be out of his league in ways he'll never understand. But he'll appreciate what he doesn't understand - if he's smart.
James Anderson
#66. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?
Alice Randall
#67. The love of a good woman can save a man" I remember Gabriel saying. "Or it can drive him to fits of unspeakable madness.
Molly Harper
#68. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
Gregory David Roberts
#69. A good woman comes in all shapes and colors.
When you find her, adore her.
Delano Johnson
#70. Any good woman knows two things. She knows how to take care of herself and she knows how to take care of the ones she loves. Today, you demonstrated you're a good woman Rees. And it was an honor to be there because it was a sight to behold.
Kristen Ashley
#71. She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.
Han Kang
#72. Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
Martha Beck
#73. And in time, and by being a good woman, and a patient woman, she would have won a good and patient man.
Helen Oyeyemi
#74. A good woman keeps her mind right and her body tight.
Habeeb Akande
#75. King Henry wants lands an'titles, like all the English."
"What do Scots want?" she asked, glancing over her shoulder. Darrow was far more sure footed than she was.
"A good woman, a warm bed, and food in their bellies." He grinned at her and she couldn't help but laugh.
Selena Kitt
#76. If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.
Doug Wright
#77. A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
Betty Friedan
#78. true love for a good woman is a great thing, Susan. It shapes many a rough fellow.
George Eliot
#79. A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. But above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man.
David Gemmell
#80. A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
Simonides Of Ceos
#81. If a good woman isn't a little bit Bitchy sometimes, it is just as though Dijon mustard didn't have any taste.
Ernest Hemingway,
#83. You just have to say to yourself, "I am not willing to accept anything less than what I deserve! I am smart! I am Beautiful! I am a good woman and I deserve to be happy!" It all starts with you.
Amari Soul
#84. The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
John Ruskin
#85. She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every day of her life.
Flannery O'Connor
#86. How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
Philip Massinger
#87. She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.
Kristin Hannah
#88. A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero
Gelett Burgess
#89. When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it.
Dean Koontz
#90. A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
Helen Rowland
#91. People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.
Pierce Brosnan
#92. I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.
Roxane Gay
#93. I'm sorry. I can't serve him that item," the waitress said, only somewhat surprising her since she had a pretty good idea why.
"Why not?" she found herself asking anyway out of curiosity to see if she was right.
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"Because he's a Bradford," the woman explained with a shrug.
R.L. Mathewson
#94. Waking, dreaming. She felt as if a woman torn between two lovers - one of them calm, and sweet, and still and good, and the other magnificent, stone-muscled and taciturn and bold enough to seize her and pull her close to him in the darkness of the night.
Gord Sellar
#95. A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
Pericles
#96. You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.
Tracy Letts
#97. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
Neal A. Maxwell
#98. It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.
Larry McMurtry
#99. The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. Well, perhaps she was a bit star-struck after all.
Lynn Steward
#100. She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ...
Eva Ibbotson
