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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn on Women

1792–1870 Switzerland

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An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt—just a little?

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

No woman dares express all she thinks.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)

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