13 quotes
San Francisco is a mad city—inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
American Notes—At the Golden Gate (1891)
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
’Tisn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just It. Some women’ll stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
“True. True talk,” said Kim solemnly. “Fools speak of a cat when a woman is brought to bed, for instance. I have heard them.”
Look at young Davies makin' an ass of himself over mutton-dressed-as-lamb old enough to be his mother!
The Day's Work (1898)
An' I learned about women from 'er.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892)
When you get to a man in the case,
They're like as a row of pins—
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under their skins!
I've taken my fun where I've found it,
An' now I must pay for my fun,
For the more you 'ave known o' the others
The less will you settle to one.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892)
But I consort with long-haired things
In velvet collar-rolls,
Who talk about the Aims of Art,
And ‘theories’ and ‘goals’,
And moo and coo with women-folk
About their blessed souls.
In Partibus (1909)
A Nation spoke to a Nation,
A Queen sent word to a Throne:
‘Daughter am I in my mother's house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open,
As the gates are mine to close,
And I set my house in order,'
Said our Lady of the Snows.