“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
Source: The Woman in White
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“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”
Source: The Disorderly Knights
Part II. Of the Extent of Sensible Knowledge.
The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856)

“A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”

“The word of God has fenced about all crimes with Holiness.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley. Queen Mab https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Queen_Mab/Canto_VII
“I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get.”
Source: Rent

“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.”
As quoted in Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 1 (2009) by Iam A. Freeman