Honest Woman Quotes

Honest Woman Quotes by Marlene Dumas, Christopher Fry, William Shakespeare, Robert Graves, Rainbow Rowell, Ti-Grace Atkinson and many others.

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesa

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.
Marlene Dumas
Religion
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
And we won’t have it kicking over the traces again.
Christopher Fry
A very honest woman but something given to lie
William Shakespeare
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and – if he is lucky enough – know the love of an honest woman.
Robert Graves
God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.
Rainbow Rowell
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
Ti-Grace Atkinson
Funny women are honest women.
Elizabeth Meriwether
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil — improper influence! What old woman’s cackle is that?” “Are you a young lady?” “I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
Charlotte Bronte
Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.
Euripides
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong…not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.
Winston Churchill
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
G. E. M. Anscombe