Minna Antrim famous quotes

03-23-2025

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
-- Minna Antrim

#Teacher #Cynical #Experience
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
-- Minna Antrim

#Beautiful #Wise #Wisdom
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
-- Minna Antrim

#Mistake #Intuition #Quality
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
-- Minna Antrim

#Achieve #Distinction #Hated
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
-- Minna Antrim

#Men #Awful
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
-- Minna Antrim

#Rivers #Flow #Admiration
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
-- Minna Antrim

#Beautiful #Pride #Actresses
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
-- Minna Antrim

#Men #Seduction #Propose
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
-- Minna Antrim

#Wall #Bark #Satiety
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
-- Minna Antrim

#Women #Faces #Figures
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
-- Minna Antrim

#Compliment #Latter
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
-- Minna Antrim

#Jealousy #Names #Ugly
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
-- Minna Antrim

#Eye #Dust #Devil
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
-- Minna Antrim

#Women #Men #Forgiving
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
-- Minna Antrim

#Complaining #Fool #Moral
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast
-- Minna Antrim

#People #Enthusiasm #Ballast
To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
-- Minna Antrim

#Knowledge #Self #Genius
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
-- Minna Antrim

#Lying #Hypocrite #Differences
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
-- Minna Antrim

#Historical #Praise #Expenses

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