Jean Giraudoux - Woman Quotes

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To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her.

Jean Giraudoux

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Jean Giraudoux

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Jean Giraudoux

Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon

Jean Giraudoux

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

Jean Giraudoux

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Jean Giraudoux

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

Jean Giraudoux