250 Quotes by Helen Rowland

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman – a married man needs only an excuse.

A woman’s flattery may inflate a man’s head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony – but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him “forever” when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature – and another woman to help him forget them.

What a man calls his ‘conscience’ is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman – and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

Woman’s love – a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.