“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”– Marcel Proust Related Quotes “When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”– Rudyard Kipling “Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.”– George Byron “There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.”– P. J. O’Rourke