Helen Rowland Quotes About Literature
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There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
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A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
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A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
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A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
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When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
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France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
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In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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