THE IMPERFECT FEMINIST

The Best Epigrams are Falsehoods that Look so Like the Truth as to Deceive Nobody

Frederick James Gregg

WITH some women you can never afford to be reasonable unless you are in the wrong.

A man can always understand the woman with whom somebody else is in love.

There is the same difference between jealousy and suspicion that there is between a compliment and an insult.

Never criticize a woman unless you are sure that you will never want to marry her.

A woman holds a man by making him think that he can't hold her.

The feminine plan: In dealing with those who have bad manners, be rude first.

Some women get a reputation for telling the truth because they find truth stranger than fiction.

Women forgive easily, but find it hard to forget: Men forget easily but find it hard to forgive.

A man who is in love thinks that everybody else knows it: A woman when she is in love acts as if nobody knew it.

A man is willing to have a woman make love to him, but his sense of propriety is shocked if she hints at marriage.

Women are capable of being pious without being religious; men of being religious without being pious.

An ideal man is made up out of the fragments of the men or women he has not met.

A man will sometimes end by loving the woman who loves him, to show that he appreciates her good taste.

There would be less unhappiness in the world if men could only learn the feminine art of falling out of love gracefully.

You have to hate some women in order not to love them: You have to love others in order to hate them.

When a woman tells you that she can't imagine why you love her, she really means that she cannot imagine why you shouldn't.

The best part of love affairs is the interval between them. It is made up of anticipation and reminiscence.

Women are very often cruel because they are clever; men because they are not.

We acquire a knowledge of women only when it is too late to use it.

A man's inconsistency often springs from laziness, a woman's from vanity.

A man never has an ideal woman until he has met her: A woman always has an ideal man and never meets him.

Theories about women, like the higher mathematics, are of no practical use to anybody.