Giacomo Casanova - Woman Quotes

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A beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

Giacomo Casanova
In a woman learning is out of place; it compromises the essential qualities of her sex.... No scientific discoveries have been made by women... [which] requires a vigor which the female sex cannot have. But in simple reasoning and in delicacy of feeling we must yield to women.

Giacomo Casanova
If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.

Giacomo Casanova
There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

Giacomo Casanova
Things have come to such a point in good society that, if you want to be polite, you can no longer ask a man from what country he comes, for if he is a Norman or a Calabrian he has, when he tells you so, to beg your pardon, or, if he is from the Pays de Vaud, to say he is Swiss. Nor will you ask a nobleman what his arms are, for if he does not know the jargon of heraldry you will embarrass him. you must not compliment a gentleman on his fine hair, for if it is a wig, he may think you are mocking him, nor praise a man or a woman on their fine teeth, for they may be false.

Giacomo Casanova