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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

• "Women, when they are bad, are worse than men, and more ready to commit crimes."
  

Edmund Burke (1728-1797)

• "A woman is an animal, and an animal not of the highest order."

Thomas Dekker (1570-1641)

• "Women, at best, are bad."

Euripedes (484-406 B.C.)

• "I detest a woman who is learned.  May there never be in my home a woman who knows more than a woman ought to know."
  

John Fletcher (1579-1625)

• "A woman-friend!  He that believes that weakness steers in a stormy night without a compass."

John Home (1724-1808)

• "He seldom errs who thinks the worst of womankind."
  

Menander (343-292 B.C.)

• "Woman is a necessary evil...and the man who gets the most tolerable one is lucky."
  

Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18)

• "Every woman thinks herself lovable."

• "No matter how ugly she is, every woman is pleased with her own looks."

Francois M.A. Voltaire (1694-1778)

• "Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors."

William Wycherly (1640-1715)

• "Women serve but to keep a man from better company."