All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British Actor
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
—Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer
It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
—Tallulah Bankhead (1902–68) American Actress
Never kiss an ugly girl; she will tell everyone.
—Hebrew Proverb
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl’s heart.
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
—Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as “nymphets.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-born American Novelist
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
—Colette (1873–1954) French Novelist, Performer
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist
The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls.
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Writer, Poet, Children’s Books Author
You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
Her father’s fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive.
—Spanish Proverb
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
—Arabic Proverb
To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.
—Chinese Proverb
If I were a girl, I’d despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
—Robert Ranke Graves (1895–1985) English Poet, Novelist, Critic, Classical Scholar
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
—Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer
Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.
—African Proverb
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
—Jean-luc Godard (1930–2022) French-born Swiss Film Director, Film Critic
Girls. You never know what they’re going to think.
—J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
There are so many girls, and so few princes.
—Liza Minnelli (b.1946) American Singer, Actress
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
—F. H. Bradley (1846–1924 ) British Idealist Philosopher
I have the same goal I’ve had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
—Madonna (b.1958) American Pop Singer, Actress
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
—Yiddish Proverb
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
—Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American Comedienne, Writer
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
It is easier to watch over one hundred fleas than one young girl.
—Polish Proverb
A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror.
—Maltese Proverb
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
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