For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!
Rudyard Kipling
Orion's Cold Fire
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The full versions of each:
The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling (poetry.com)
The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling (poetry.com)
Three And An Extra (americanliterature.com)
It’s going to take a while to get through Kipling. The long and the short. For some of the longer pieces also have memorable one liners.
As an Army/Air Force Lifer, I am very fond of his Barracks Room Ballads.
Kipling had a great ear for dialect. And he had empathy for the common people. A trait sadly lacking in our elite writers.