
“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Les Mohicans de Paris, http://www.archive.org/details/lesmohicansdepa02dumagoog, 2009-08-07, I, 1871, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 232]
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1854 novel)
Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1854 novel)
“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman.”
Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: «Cherchez la femme!»
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Théâtre complet, http://www.archive.org/details/thtrecomplet24dumauoft, 2009-08-07, XXIV, 1889, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 103], translation from The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations II.iii
See wikipedia cherchez la femme on how this phrase has come to be used.
Compare Juvenal satire VI.243 (circa 100 AD), "never yet was there a lawsuit which did not have a woman at the bottom of it" (translation by G. G. Ramsay), but in that case describing the litigiousness of Roman women.
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1864 play)
I've Been Waiting for You
Song lyrics, Neil Young (1968)
“A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.”
The Unknown Quantity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Look at a woman's Wikipedia page and you can't believe a word of it.”
Cited in " Cathy Newman: 'The internet is being written by men with an agenda' https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/19/cathy-newman-the-internet-is-being-written-by-men-with-an-agenda", 25 March 2018.
“I was at god's order
To looking for you in every woman's eye.”
Vita Nova
As quoted in "L. M. Boyd" http://www.mediafire.com/view/ulp201hdoc2hs32/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-10%20at%203.10.58%20PM.png by Boyd, in The Sioux City Journal (April 20, 1981), p. A17
“No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy”