If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

Women love only those whom they do not know!

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

Women are meant to be loved and not understood.

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

Mr. Jones, has it ever occurred to you, the world being what it is, that women sometimes prefer not to appear too bright?

Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Anyway, women are about as mysterious as a tin mine. All you have to do is carry a lantern into the dark places, and you see everything. But men like to think women are the eternally mysterious. That saves men the trouble of asking questions, taking a little time and effort.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.