Quotes About Foolish Woman

#1. Uther: "I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you"
"If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#2. Foolish woman, will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If
you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered?

George R R Martin

#3. Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

David H. Hackworth

#4. A foolish woman believes that loyalty is automatic. A wise woman knows that it is earned.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. Foolish woman, don't despair. My justice is My mercy. 5

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. Take one man, one foolish woman, put them together in a bowl and stir.

Sarah Addison Allen

#7. The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Until what? Foolish woman, will holding it secret in our heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good.

George R R Martin

#9. It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

Minna Antrim

#10. He'd imprisoned himself in this castle to rot. He'd cut off all contact with the outside world. And just when he thought he'd burned all his bridges, this woman - this impossible, sweet, foolish woman - arrived, determined to swim the moat. Breach his defenses. Make a home. Stay.

Tessa Dare

#11. He leaned his head in his hands, as if the burden he bore were too great for endurance. 'You are wise', he said, then raised his head and stared at her with unflinching hatred. 'I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#12. Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

Franz Grillparzer

#13. Though I'd proven to be a wretched, foolish woman, I knew deep in my broken heart that God was still just as good and loving as he'd been the moment he plucked a rib from Adam's side and used that bone to give me life.

Kristen Reed

#14. Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Terry Goodkind

#15. She was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.

Georgette Heyer

#16. A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

Mary Lascelles

#17. The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

Honore De Balzac

#18. Foolish man, the woman spat coldly. A stronger, smarter generation is coming. They will walk the earth as the ashes of your organization rain from the skies.

Alessia Dickson

#19. Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

Francis I

#20. Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#21. Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

Gelett Burgess

#22. The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

W. Somerset Maugham

#23. A man's jealousy is like a child's, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman's jealousy is adult, which is very different.

Daphne Du Maurier

#24. The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!
it is too beautiful to eat.

Amy Tan

#25. There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. Silly woman," he said in Gaelic. "You have not the brain of a fly!" I caught the words for "foolish," and "clumsy," in the subsequent remarks, but quickly stopped listening. I closed my eyes and lost myself instead in the dreamy pleasure of having my hair rubbed dry and then combed out.

Diana Gabaldon

#27. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were.

Ken Follett

#28. God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.

William Faulkner

#29. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#30. From where I stood it was a pose that collapsed many periods in her life into one: mother and lover, big sister, best friend, superstar and diplomat, billionaire and street kid, foolish girl and woman of substance.

Zadie Smith

#31. You may be practical, but I am not foolish. Only a woman testing a man tells him not to bother." His eyes glinted. "It's a trap - to see if I'm stupid enough to believe your shameless lies.

Emma Alisyn

#32. My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.

Radclyffe Hall

#33. But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends.

Eddie Lenihan

#34. You're right. I'm not the kind of woman to do something foolish out of defiance. I am, however, the kind of woman who would do something just to prove that you can't tell me what kind of woman I am.

Carolyn Crane

#35. Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#36. A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.

Claire Cameron

#37. A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

Robert Bloch

#38. It was stupid to hope for more. But it wouldn't be the first time her heart and her head had operated in opposition. The secret, foolish desire that she would be the one woman who he wanted more from.

Nikki Logan