Jean de La Bruyère - Women Quotes

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Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.

Jean de La Bruyère

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two.

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Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart.

Jean de La Bruyère

It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat.

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Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women.

Jean de La Bruyère

Women are extremists: they are either better or worse than men.

Jean de La Bruyère