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

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim

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

Man proposes, woman forecloses.
Minna Antrim

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

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

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Minna Antrim