Women Defined in Literature

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave. Proverbs 5:3-5

For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man's wife preys on your very life. Proverbs 6:21

Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife. Proverbs 21:19

But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 1 Corinthians 11:3

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 1 Timothy 2:11

I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 1 Timothy 2:12

And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 1 Timothy 2:14

I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes. 1 Timothy 2:9

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Titus 2:3

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. Pythagoras (570-495 BC)

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly with them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it. Confucius (551-479 BC)

A firm bosom; sparkling eyes; a small mouth [...] are characteristics of a woman which are always praised. But when we neglect the surface, we find that the internal characteristics corresponding to these are hardness of heart, shifty eyes, a deceitful face, insecurity and cunning. When we bear in mind both the superficial and inward characteristics of a woman, we must declare that the one who should possess them can be dear only to the beasts of the field. The Vairagya Sataka

A woman talks to one man, looks at a second, and thinks of a third. The Sringa Sataka

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 BC)

O botheration take you all! How you (women) cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell. Aristophanes

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Aristophanes

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. Aristophanes

There is but one thing in the world worse than a shameless woman, and that's another woman. Thesmorphoriazusae

Women are accustomed to creep into dark places, and when dragged out into the light they will exert their utmost powers of resistance ... therefore, as I said before, in most places they will not endure to have the truth spoken without raising a tremendous outcry. Plato

One single thing I trust a woman saying. To other statements no attention paying: When I am dead, I won't return to grieve you. Till death takes place, in naught else I'll believe you. Antiphanes

What! When you court concealment, will you tell the matter to a woman? Just as well tell all the criers in the public squares! Tis hard to say which of them louder blares. Antiphanes

Cursed be the dart of love that works men pain! Cursed be the land where women rule supreme! And cursed the fool that bows to woman's sway! Jataka

There's no such thing as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness. Titus Maccius Plautus

Amongst all the savage beasts none is found so harmful as woman. St John Chrysostom

It does not profit a man to marry. For what is a woman but an enemy of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a domestic danger, delectable mischief, a fault in nature, painted with beautiful colors? St John Chrysostom

The Prophet, said, 'I was shown. ' Hellfire, and when the majority of its inhabitants are women, they disbelieve. ' It was said, 'Do they disbelieve in God? ' He said. 'They disbelieve in marriage, and they disbelieve in benevolence. If you were to do good to one of them all the time and then she saw something from you, she would say, ‘I have never seen anything good from you.’ Muhammad

When the Prophet heard the news that the people of the Persia had made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen (ruler), he said, 'Nnever will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.' Muhammad

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde (The Portrait of Dorian Grey)

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want? Sigmund Freud

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. George Bernard Shaw

Never ever ever, under any circumstances financially obligate yourself (marry) to an entity that will profit from exercising her natural born prerogative to change her mind. TheXYGhost