Top 100 She Who Quotes
#1. She who had been taken and taken and taken. And now the one time she took for herself, the one time she had choice in the matter, it was taken away.
Chris Abani
#2. As she stepped into the steamboat at Dover which was to convey her to scenes so new, Lucilla felt more and more that she who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission.
Mrs. Oliphant
#3. He has taken she who is mine, so I shall take from him, she who is his. Balance. Only then will I take his life
and that is vengeance. (Juan Flores)
Patricia Briggs
#4. There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.
Sarah MacLean
#5. Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.
Pete Townshend
#6. I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
Arthur Symons
#7. Is there such a thing as natural modesty?
Wisest is she who knows she does not know ...
True insight comes from within.
He who knows what is right will do right.
Jostein Gaarder
#8. Tis a barbaric fancy," said Roxholm thoughtfully as he turned the stem of his glass, keeping his eyes fixed on it as though solving a problem for himself. "A barbaric fancy that a woman needs a master. She who is strong enough is her own conqueror
as a man should be master of himself.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#9. Was it she who saved me from the silent death that characterizes resignation to solitude?
Elie Wiesel
#11. She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
Lewis Carroll
#12. While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
Martial
#13. Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Susan B. Anthony
#16. Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby's voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.
Anne Ursu
#17. And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored.
Thomas Hardy
#18. As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.
Susanna Moore
#19. MacKenzie later said it was she who targeted Bezos, not the other way around.
Anonymous
#20. Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the melodious voice of cuckoo, but who cares for Kaw- Kaw of crow.
Lokendra Singh
#22. All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.
Virginia Woolf
#23. She who weeps when the sun's in sky, Will never pile the platter high.
Margaret Atwood
#24. But she who wins the lot of life must also draw the lot of death, since the lot of life is death
Jostein Gaarder
#25. She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
William Blake
#27. She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.
George MacDonald
#28. She who has never loved has never lived.
John Gay
#29. He wanted her to acknowledge that it was she who had bed him the night they gave themselves to each other. That his broken spirit and hers had created rather than destroyed something for the first time in their wretched lives.
Melina Marchetta
#30. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged flight.
Patrick Rothfuss
#31. Jasmine felt a sense of power in cooking. It was she who controlled the ingredients, she who controlled the menus, and she who controlled the fragrances that filled her home.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#32. She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
Ovid
#33. I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams?
Nina George
#34. I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.
Immanuel Kant
#35. She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
Alexander Pope
#36. The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.
Laurie R. King
#37. Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. stopped by this. Even she, who knew next to nothing
Ann Patchett
#39. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Olga Broumas
#40. She who passes by rosemary and doesn't pick it neither had love nor dreams of it.
Isabella Dusi
#41. In innocence, she'll light the fire
And set ablaze the fun'ral pyre
And one shall rise and one shall fall,
By hand of she who'll lead them all.
Marked twice by beast in time of rage,
And born again as the Wolfsmage.
A house of magic be undone
By she who can remake the sun.
Cyrese Covelli
#42. A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Gaspard Mermillod
#43. Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Carlos Fuentes
#44. She who must be obeyed, by Horace Rumpole character
John Mortimer
#46. Anything is possible for she who believes. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Jeanette Coron
#47. No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives in other lands.
Thomm Quackenbush
#48. The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.
Jakob Nielsen
#49. She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
Confucius
#50. And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.
John Masefield
#51. I forgave her many years ago ... It's she who blames herself, but she can't see that. It's easier to project blame into the eyes of others and defend yourself against that than to find it within yourself, where there's no possible defense.
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#52. Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the LORD
Anonymous
#53. We were both wrong: she who put her faith in me, and I who thought too well of myself.
Magda Szabo
#54. She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
John Gay
#55. It is sometimes braver to run. She who runs from her enemies until she has the strength to do otherwise is both brave and wise.
Frank Beddor
#56. As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Benjamin Disraeli
#57. Thankfully, it's she who spoke. Not the skeleton. Because ... gross.
Chuck Wendig
#58. She who dies with the most stilettos wins.
Nina Garcia
#59. She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man
Catherine Doherty
#60. Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee;
H. Rider Haggard
#61. She who only finds her self-esteem
In others' admiration, begs an alms;
Depends on others for her daily food,
And is the very servant of her slaves;
Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
Which not ennobles but degrades her state.
Joanna Baillie
#63. She sits on the iron throne
She is one and three
The dark lady
the redgold lady
The blank lady
oracle
of blood, she who must be
obeyed
forever
Her glass wings are gone
She floats down the river
singing her last song
Margaret Atwood
#64. She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.
Buchi Emecheta
#65. To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
Walter Savage Landor
#66. Today we tell girls to grow up to be or do whatever they want. But the cultural pressure to become a mother remains very strong; rare is she who doesn't at least occasionally succumb to the nagging fear that if she remains childless, she'll live to regret it.
Kate Bolick
#67. The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.
Nhat Hanh
#69. She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain.
James Baldwin
#71. She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state
Thiruvalluvar
#72. Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail."
She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. "And damned be he - she - who cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
"Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you," I told her, and she laughed.
Patricia Briggs
#73. Give vulnerability a shot. Give discomfort its due. Because I think he or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest, but rises the fastest.
Timothy Ferriss
#74. No, she who rides the tiger can never dismount!
Dave Duncan
#75. The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth
Leo Tolstoy
#76. Remember, she who keepeth the Books runneth the Business.
Thomas Pynchon
#77. The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
Elizabeth Fry
#78. True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
Michel De Montaigne
#79. The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears ... otherwise.
Sarah MacLean
#80. Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!
Walter Scott
#81. Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now ...
Melissa De La Cruz
#82. The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.
Marie Stopes
#83. The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B.C. Forbes
#86. The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation. We shall see whether Hester Prynne were ever afterwards so touched and so transfigured.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#87. History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
Julianne Malveaux
#88. She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.
D.H. Lawrence
#89. There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
Rebecca Solnit
#90. Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.
Florence King
#91. She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?
Emile Zola
#92. She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.
Ilona Andrews
#93. Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
Julio Cortazar
#94. The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
Plautus
#95. She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet knows nothing of rain or wind. I speak for her; I am her own.
Catherynne M Valente
#96. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be.
Karen Andreola
#97. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.
Dan Simmons
#98. An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.
Jean De La Bruyere
#99. It is she who listens to the rest of the world who fails, and it is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.
Sophia Amoruso
#100. Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.
Guru Nanak
