Frases de Helen Rowland

“Um marido é o que sobra de um amante depois que o nervo é extraído.”

“Quando uma garota se casa, ela troca a atenção de muitos homens pela desatenção de um.”

“Um homem rouba o primeiro beijo, implora o segundo, exige o terceiro, recebe o quarto, aceita o quinto, e suporta os restantes.”

“Mentir é uma falta do menino, uma arte do amante, um aperfeiçoamento do solteiro e uma segunda natureza do marido.”

“Na Antiguidade, os sacrifícios faziam-se no altar. Actualmente esse costume perdura.”

“Você jamais vencerá se nunca começar.”

“Perguntar a uma rapariga se a podemos beijar é um meio insultante de lhe deixar toda a responsabilidade.”

“Uma mulher leva vinte anos para fazer do seu filho um homem - outra mulher, vinte minutos para fazer dele um tolo.”

“A mulher começa por resistir aos avanços do homem e termina por bloquear a sua retirada.”

“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”

“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”

“Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.”

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

“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”

“Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.”

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."”

“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”

“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.”

“Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.”