Comely Woman Quotes

Perhaps the Hungarian humorist Ferencz Karinthy captures the spirit of the situation best in a tableau about a bored businessman who amuses himself by looking through high-powered binoculars from his office high in a skyscraper into neighbouring office rooms. On one occasion he spies a middle-aged executive chasing a comely secretary around his desk. As it happens the observers knows the building in which this drama is taking place and can even make out the name of the occupant from the plaque on his desk. He consults the telephone directory and gives the culprit, who is still trying to force his attentions on the secretary, a ring. When the culprit answers the telephone the observer announces himself as God Almighty and tells him to stop molesting the young woman in his employ. The culprit, thunderstruck and unable to account fo the observer's exact knowledge of what has been going on, fall son his knees in a paroxysm of fear and wonder and begs forgiveness. The observer roundly berates the culprit who swears he will do anything to make amends and promises never to sin again. Hereupon the observer informs the culprit that he can indeed make amends by lending him 100 pengo [dollars]. The answer, of course is a burst of profanity and the abrupt termination of the call. Karinthy then draws his moral: if you want to play God don't try to borrow money... ~ George Bailey

You ask me what makes a woman comely?" He tapped one finger lightly against her temple and said, "Thoughts, missus. It's thoughts that make a woman so. ~ Kathleen Kent

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes. ~ Publilius Syrus

A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men. ~ William Prynne

She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt! ~ Stephen King

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Less than a mummer's fart. ~ George R R Martin

For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice. ~ Plato

And if I please you so, my lover,
Remember praise is comely. ~ Countee Cullen

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit. ~ Plutarch

I am sorie God made me so comely. ~ Nicholas Udall

Oh, what a world is this when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it! ~ William Shakespeare

Sarie is such a comely girl," he said to them, "even the evil spirits will be heartbroken to see her hurt."- King Chuka ~ Ray Anyasi

A comely olde man as busie as a bee. ~ John Lyly

Distraught I seize mine arms ... And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand! ~ Virgil

Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume. ~ Andrea Zuvich

A woman determined to succeed in her life is unstoppable. ~ Luffina Lourduraj

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal ... ~ Herman Melville

To a woman, the first kiss tells all about a relationship. ~ Aman Jassal

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~ Jean Ingelow

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. ~ Oscar Wilde

Luck always favors the comely. ~ Richard Schickel

You want to know what a woman is thinking, ask a woman. Simple! ~ Nishta Kochar

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. ~ Francis Bacon

I was a woman who loved a woman, chief among the womanly sins, like barreness and thinking. ~ Sara Collins

A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman. ~ Chloe Thurlow

A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree. ~ John Bunyan

A strong woman strengthens women. An empowered woman empowers women. When one woman rises we are all elevated. ~ Toni Sorenson

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. ~ Maya Angelou

The power of a woman is in her beauty. Show it off every time you have the chance ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman. ~ Blake Lively

Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature. ~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. ~ George R R Martin

I am that woman...
A woman with compassion and empathy
An alluring woman whose beauty emanates from the inside
A woman of courage and perseverance
A woman gifted with many talents
A woman who has so much to give and know where she is going
A woman who is everything but lost without you. ~ Julie Cox

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her. ~ Richard Jefferies

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Every woman is beautiful. Every woman is amazing because every woman's heart is filled with the motherly instinct of unconditional love. ~ Debasish Mridha

A quiet woman is a firearms with a silencer. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices. ~ Eleanor Holmes Norton

I sometimes questioned the plausibility of two people so deeply in love ending up as mortal enemies. Maybe love was just the larval stage of hate, the comely caterpillar in advance of the hideous butterfly. ~ Maurice Carlos Ruffin

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Every woman with her own makeup! ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

A real woman is a work of fiction a real man is a short report ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Man who treat Woman without respect
and see Woman ONLY as a public toilett
forget where they spend their first 9
months of their Life! ~ Lily Amis

A woman is always ready to describe another woman as charming, but only if the other woman is not charming. ~ Evan Esar

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills. ~ Martha Graham

Wasn't choosy about breasts. Large ones, pert ones. Dark nipples or fair. Alabaster or freckled. So far as he was concerned, the most comely pair of breasts in the world was always the pair he was currently tasting. ~ Tessa Dare

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful. ~ Billy Graham

I don't believe in the idea of the strong woman; there is simply woman. ~ Melissa Thayer

No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek. ~ H.L. Mencken

A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way. ~ Queen Latifah

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him. ~ Helen Rowland

Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. ~ William Shakespeare

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. ~ Candace Bushnell

A woman with vision is unstoppable, a woman who is always increasing her skills multiplies. Along with passion this woman is undeniable. ~ Janna Cachola

Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. ~ Georgia O'Keffe

A woman is a poem, a man is a report ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. ~ Maureen Dowd

A LONELY WOMAN IS a dangerous woman." Doktor Messerli spoke with grave sincerity. "A lonely woman is a bored woman. Bored women act on impulse. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. ~ Willa Cather

Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one. ~ Manju Warrier

I learned a woman is never an old woman. ~ Joni Mitchell

You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman. ~ Raf Simons

A woman should always be late for a man. Men should wait. But a woman should never be late for another woman. A woman's time is precious: she has a lot of things to do.. ~ Louise Kean

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up? ~ Robert Southey

Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman. ~ William Lyon Phelps

My gran had always told me that a woman
any woman worth her salt
could do whatever she had to. ~ Charlaine Harris

Pity womankind, but never a woman. ~ Warren Eyster

Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
'T is haste
Makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. ~ Robert Herrick

Every woman is beautiful, but not every woman has someone to tell her that. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman? ~ Mary MacLane

If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman ~ Munia Khan

When they turned, Pelletier and Espinoza saw an older woman in a white blouse and black skirt, a woman with a figure like Marlene Dietrich, as Pelletier would say much later, a woman who despite her years was still as strong willed as ever, a woman who didn't cling to the edge of the abyss but plunged into it with curiosity and elegance. A woman who plunged into the abyss sitting down. ~ Roberto Bolano

I dress like a 30-year-old woman. ~ Selena Gomez

Was it an insult to be called a "woman writer"? Didn't it have a taint of, say, the "woman driver"? ~ Mary Norris

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later. ~ Garry Hynes

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away. ~ Catherine Deneuve

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be? ~ Maria Mitchell

An average woman is in this superior to an average man - that she never instigates, only responds. ~ Thomas Hardy

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it's not going to upset her. ~ Angelina Jolie

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The witch is undoubtedly the magical woman, the liberated woman, and the persecuted woman, but she can also be everywoman. ~ Kristen J. Sollee

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman. ~ Carine Roitfeld

She was spontaneous. Even in her cleverness. She never looked at people; people looked at her. It was her reward for being natural. ~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman. ~ Catherine Cookson

A man who fears a woman's strength is weak; a boy who embraces a woman's power is strong. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no greater catalyst for change in a man than a woman. To love a woman is to become a new kind of man, in one direction or another. A woman holds sway over all. The right woman can assume command of your every part of your being, both body and soul. Her conquest will be total. ~ Bryan M. Litfin

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through. ~ Patrick Demarchelier

Forget what I said about a woman who won't listen. The worst thing is a woman who knows what she wants. ~ Shobha Rao

A woman, she is born with the power to save and love, her existence is based on the truthfulness in her eyes. ~ Swapna Rajput

I want to play Wonder Woman really badly. I want them to make the movie of 'Wonder Woman', and I want to play Wonder Woman so bad. That'd be really fun. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. ~ Crystal Eastman

A woman will always be a woman. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. ~ Robert Johnson

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it. ~ Walter Scott

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends. ~ Naomi Watts