All Quotes

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
‐‐ Phaedrus

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
‐‐ Caity Lotz

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to the conquered.
‐‐ Livy

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
‐‐ Voltaire

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
‐‐ Francis of Assisi

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
‐‐ John Piper

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
‐‐ Oriana Fallaci

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.
‐‐ Denis Leary

Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.
‐‐ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
‐‐ Jean Paul

Woman are complex creatures.
‐‐ Talib Kweli

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
‐‐ Rumi

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Woman is also the element of conflict.
‐‐ Marcello Mastroianni

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
‐‐ Francis I

Woman is at once apple and serpent.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
‐‐ Marcello Mastroianni

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
‐‐ Margaret Sanger

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
‐‐ Margaret Sanger

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
‐‐ Victoria Woodhull

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.
‐‐ Sam Abell

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

Woman's at best a contradiction still.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
‐‐ John Boyle O'Reilly