Top 100 Helen Rowland Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”

— Helen Rowland

2. “After marriage, a woman’s sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man’s so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.”

— Helen Rowland

3. “A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run – sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet.”

— Helen Rowland

4. “Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.”

— Helen Rowland

5. “True love isn’t the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.”

— Helen Rowland

6. “The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.”

— Helen Rowland

7. “A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.”

— Helen Rowland

8. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”

— Helen Rowland

9. “A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.”

— Helen Rowland

10. “A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man’s approval.”

— Helen Rowland

11. “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.”

— Helen Rowland

12. “Woman’s love – a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.”

— Helen Rowland

13. “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.”

— Helen Rowland

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

— Helen Rowland

15. “Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion.”

— Helen Rowland

16. “The woman who appeals to a man’s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.”

— Helen Rowland

17. “A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.”

— Helen Rowland

18. “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?”

— Helen Rowland

19. “Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.”

— Helen Rowland

20. “A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.”

— Helen Rowland

21. “The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.”

— Helen Rowland

22. “The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.”

— Helen Rowland

23. “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.”

— Helen Rowland

24. “A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn’t.”

— Helen Rowland

25. “The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.”

— Helen Rowland

26. “A man always mistakes a woman’s clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.”

— Helen Rowland

27. “Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.”

— Helen Rowland

28. “Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”

— Helen Rowland

29. “A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman – a married man needs only an excuse.”

— Helen Rowland

30. “To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.”

— Helen Rowland

31. “When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.”

— Helen Rowland

32. “Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.”

— Helen Rowland

33. “In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.”

— Helen Rowland

34. “When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”

— Helen Rowland

35. “Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.”

— Helen Rowland

36. “A woman’s flattery may inflate a man’s head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.”

— Helen Rowland

37. “Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.”

— Helen Rowland

38. “A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”

— Helen Rowland

39. “In love, somehow, a man’s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.”

— Helen Rowland

40. “Marriage: a souvenir of love.”

— Helen Rowland

41. “Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.”

— Helen Rowland

42. “Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.”

— Helen Rowland

43. “No man can understand why a woman shouldn’t prefer a good reputation to a good time.”

— Helen Rowland

44. “A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.”

— Helen Rowland

45. “Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it.”

— Helen Rowland

46. “Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”

— Helen Rowland

47. “A man’s heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.”

— Helen Rowland

48. “Love is a matter of give and take – marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.”

— Helen Rowland

49. “Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman’s punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.”

— Helen Rowland

50. “When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.”

— Helen Rowland