Helen Rowland Quotes

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Helen Rowland

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Helen Rowland

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Helen Rowland

Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

Helen Rowland

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Helen Rowland

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.

Helen Rowland

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.

Helen Rowland

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

Helen Rowland

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Helen Rowland

Helen Rowland

Helen Rowland

Born: 1875

Died: 1950 (aged 75)

Bio: Helen Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World newspaper called Reflections of a Bachelor Girl.

Known for:

The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915)
The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon

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Helen Rowland on Wikipedia

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