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
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
A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror.
—Maltese Proverb
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
—Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American Comedienne, Writer
The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls.
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Writer of Children’s Books
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
—Jean-luc Godard (b.1930) French-born Swiss Film Director, Film Critic
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
Girls. You never know what they’re going to think.
—J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
—U.S. Proverb
If a girl seems as shy as a mouse, you still have to look out for the tiger within her.
—Chinese Proverb
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
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
—Yiddish Proverb
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
—Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French Fashion Designer
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British Actor
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 girl is born it is like having six thieves invade the house.
—Polish Proverb
The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.
—Yiddish Proverb
Never kiss an ugly girl; she will tell everyone.
—Hebrew Proverb
It is easier to watch over one hundred fleas than one young girl.
—Polish Proverb
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet
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
Eat your fish while it is still fresh and marry the girl while she is still young.
—German Proverb
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.
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) American Novelist
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.
—French Proverb
It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
—Tallulah Bankhead (1902–68) American Actress
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
—Francoise Sagan (1935–2004) French Novelist, Playwright, Short-Story Writer
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
A girl never grows into a lady.
—Russian Proverb
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