Troublesome Women Quotes

#1. Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.

Paula Hawkins

#2. The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.

Melissa Bank

#3. Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Terry Pratchett

#5. If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

Nancy Gibbs

#6. We all need our quiet, I think. We all have our unspoken wishes, hopes we cannot mention, choices we may yet regret.

Intisar Khanani

#7. It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Samuel Richardson

#9. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

Julie Bowen

#10. If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.

Anthony Liccione

#12. We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats.

Donald Barthelme

#13. How very odd, to be sure!' 'What is?' She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. 'Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad want of particularity.

Georgette Heyer

#14. I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

Osamu Dazai

#15. Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion - to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering - and cause it - and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.

Laini Taylor

#17. Everyone always says more than they're supposed to,

William J. Casey

#18. Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

Johann Georg Hamann

#19. Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations ... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher ... We've got it all.

Barack Obama

#20. Several prominent Saudis have told me that King Fahd at the time was nearing a decision to permit women to drive but was forced to back off by the furious public reaction

Thomas W. Lippman

#21. Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.

Orson Scott Card