Girls quotes

Anonymous

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

Betjeman Sir John 1906-1984

„A Subaltern's Love-song"

Around us are Rovers and Austins afar,
Above us, the intimate roof of the car,
And here on my right is the girl of my choice,
With the tilt of her nose and the chime of her voice.

Brooke Rupert 1887-1915

„The Chiltern's"

And I shall find some girl perhaps,
And a better one than you,
With eyes as wise, but kindlier,
And lips as soft, but true.
And I dare say she will do.

Chepik Nikolai 1966-1985

(from his diary)

Believing that a girl will wait is just like jumping with a parachute packed by someone else.

Cummings E.E. 1894-1962

Collected Poems

a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues.

Gay John 1685-1732

„A Letter to a Lady"

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Graves Robert 1895-1985

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882

(composed for his second daughter)

There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead,
When she was good
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Loos Anita 1893-1981

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

This gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos Anita 1893-1981

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

Miller Max 1895-1963

The Max Miller Blue Book
There was a little girl who a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead;
When she was good she was very very good,
And when she was bad she was very very popular.

Sagan Françoise 1935-1994

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Spark Muriel 1918-

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

The Small House at Allington

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her
lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Wallas Graham 1858-1932

The Art of Thought

The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she spoke, said, „How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"

White E.B. 1899-1985

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

Yeats William Butler 1865-1939

„Politics"

How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?

Alcott Louisa May 1832-1888

Little Women

Girls are so queer, you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Carey Henry c.1687-1743

„Sally in our Alley"

Of all the girls that are so smart
There's none like pretty Sally,
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.

Ciardi John 1916-

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Hampton Christopher 1946-

Savages

A definition of capitalism ... the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Mitford Nancy 1904-1973

Love in a Cold Climate

„Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry" is an aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like Indian widow.

Mottoes and Slogans

(slogan, World Whores Congress)

Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.

Parker Dorothy 1893-1967

(attributed)

If all the girls attending the Yale Prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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