Second thoughts are best. God created man; woman was the after-thought.Proverb.I have been ready to believe that we have seen a new revelation, and the name of its Messiah is woman.Holmes.The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard further than the loudest call of duty.Anonymous.The man who enters his wife’s dressing-room is either a philosopher or a fool.Balzac.Be circumspect in your liaisons with women. It is better to be seen at the opera with this man than to be seen at mass with that woman.Mme. de Maintenon.Two women placed together make cold weather.Shakespeare.I have seen many instances of women running to waste and self-neglect, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven.Washington Irving.Physical love is an ephemeral spark designed to kindle in human hearts the flame of a more lasting love. It is the outer court of the temple.Sabatier.Between the mouth and the kiss, there is always time for repentance.Ricard.Love decreases when it ceases to increase.Chateaubriand.Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.De Musset.A woman never commands a man, unless he be a fool, but by her obedience.Turkish Spy.Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol.Gautier.In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.Tolstoi.Women know at first sight the character of those with whom they converse. There is much to give them a religious height to which men do not attain.Emerson.Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.Buxton.Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.Michelet.Before going to war say a prayer; before going to sea say two prayers; before marrying say three prayers.Proverb.If marriages are made in Heaven you had but few friends there.Scotch Proverb.A man should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.Joubert.I think Nature and an angry God produced thee to the world, thou wicked sex, to be a plague to man.Ariosto.Women enjoy more the pleasure they give than the pleasure they feel.Rochepedre.Woman’s tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust.Mme. Necker.Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.Bacon.Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes.Legouvé.On seeing a lady sitting at the dinner-table between two Bishops, Sydney Smith inquired, “Her name is Susanna, I assume?”With cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones.Dupuy.Women who marry seldom act but once; their lot is, ere they wed, obedience unto a father, thenceforth to a husband.Marston.It is woman’s way. They always love colour better than form, rhetoric better than logic, priestcraft better than philosophy, and flourishes better than figures.Anonymous.A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in her conduct.La Bruyère.Tears are the strength of women.Saint-Evremond.A woman’s best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies rather than by her knowledge.Smiles.A woman’s thoughts run before her actions.Shakespeare.It is valueless to a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.La Rochefoucauld.Silence and modesty are the best ornaments of women.Euripides.The plainest man who pays attention to women will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest who does not.Colton.A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is loved.Mme. de Motteville.As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.Addison.Women are passive agents, and when love prompts them they can outsuffer martyrs.Massinger.Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society puts in their way.Balzac.A woman (of the right kind) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth followed the reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often the finest of the wheat.Holmes.To a woman of spirit, the most intolerable of all grievances is a restraint on the liberty of the tongue.Junius.If women were humbler men would be honester.Vanbrugh.These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.Shakespeare.Nature makes fools; women make coxcombs.Anonymous.No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense or immovable as that of woman for woman.Landor.Women are priestesses of the unknown.Anonymous.To give you nothing and to make you expect everything, to dawdle on the threshold of love while the doors are closed, this is all the science of a coquette.De Bernard.Men always say more evil of a woman than there really is; and there is always more than is known.Mezeray.Neither walls, nor goods, nor anything is more difficult to be guarded than woman.Alexis.Would you hurt a woman most, aim at her affections.Wallace.A wise man ought often to admonish his wife, to reprove her seldom, but never to lay hands on her.Marcus Aurelius.A woman of honour should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.Marguerite de Valois.We only demand that a woman should be womanly; which is not being exclusive.Leigh Hunt.Man forsakes Christianity in his labours; woman cherishes it in her solitudes and trials. Man lives by repelling, woman by enduring—and here Christianity meets her.Channing.It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed even to feign ignorance.Mme. de Girardin.A woman’s hopes are woven as sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.George Eliot.Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker.Buckle.The more idle a woman’s hand, the more occupied her heart.Dubay.Women speak easily of platonic love; but while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does not drive platonism from our hearts.Ricard.If woman did turn man out of Paradise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him.Sheldon.A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one.Simonides.A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.Solomon.How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle women shall be our earliest guides—instilling their own spirits.Channing.Let woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation.Lamb.The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering characters, or virago queens.Goldsmith.A heart which has been domesticated by matrimony and maternity is as tranquil as a tame bullfinch.Holmes.If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.Karr.A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one is a jewel, the other a treasure.Napoleon I.Women especially are to be talked to as below men and above children.Chesterfield.When joyous, a woman’s licence is not to be endured; when in terror, she is a plague.Æschylus.Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.Lingrés.When we speed to the devil’s house, woman takes the lead by a thousand steps.Goethe.When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times!Balzac.Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtier can do.Thackeray.Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.Zimmerman.Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection.Schiller.Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.Mme. du Deffand.Women are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.Anonymous.Women have a perpetual envy of our vices; they are less vicious than we, not from choice, but because we restrict them; they are the slaves of order and fashion.Johnson.It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the “dear deceit” of beauty.George Eliot.I detest those women who mount the pulpit and lay their passions bare.Eugenie de Guérin.Of all men, Adam was the happiest; he had no mother-in-law.Parfait.Beloved darlings, who cover over and shadow many malicious purposes with a counterfeit passion of dissimulate sorrow and unquietness.Sir Walter Raleigh.A mother’s tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart.Eugenie de Guérin.Lovers have in their language an infinite number of words in which each syllable is a caress.Rochepedre.To love is the least of the faults of a loving woman.La Rochefoucauld.What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short a duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest.Rousseau.There is nothing in love but what we imagine.St Beuve.I am a strenuous advocate for liberty and property, but when these rights are invaded by a pretty woman, I am neither able to defend my money nor my freedom.Junius.There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.Chamfort.To educate a man is to form an individual who leaves nothing behind him; to educate a woman is to form future generations.Laboulaye.There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.Anonymous.In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them.Balzac.It is no more possible to do without a wife than it is to dispense with eating and drinking.Luther.God created the coquette as soon as he made the fool.Victor Hugo.The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded welcome of a wife.Willis.Trust not a woman, even when dead.Latin Proverb.I have seen more than one woman drown her honour in the clear water of diamonds.Comtesse d’Houdetot.Who trusts himself to woman or to waves should never hazard what he fears to lose.Oldmixon.It is vanity that renders the youth of women culpable and their old age ridiculous.Mme. dé Sonza.There are three things that women throw away—their time, their money, and their health.Madame Geoffrin.The pleasant man a woman will desire for her own sake, but the languishing lover has nothing to hope from but her pity.Steele.Woman is an overgrown child that one amuses with toys, intoxicates with flattery, and seduces with promises.Sophie Arnould.True modesty protects a woman better than her garments.Anonymous.Woman is the sweetest present that God has given to man.Guyard.Coquetry is the desire to please, without the want of love.Rochepedre.Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.De Maintenon.Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies.De Varennes.The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman.Curtis.Provided a woman be well-principled she has dowry enough.Plautus.The more women have risked, the more they are willing to sacrifice.Duclos.A flattered woman is always indulgent.Chenier.Beauty is the eye’s food and the soul’s sorrow.German Proverb.Some cunning men choose fools for their wives, thinking to manage them, but they always fail.Johnson.A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects be considered a tolerable blessing.Washington Irving.Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman.Bronson Alcott.Silence has been given to woman to better express her thoughts.Desnoyers.The society of women endangers men’s morals and refines their manners.Montesquieu.Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent.Portuguese Proverb.The virtuous woman who falls in love is much to be pitied.La Rochefoucauld.A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her than with what we bestow upon her.Dupuy.Women are extremists; they are either better or worse than men.La Bruyère.Woman is the crime of man. She has been his victim since Eden. She wears on her flesh the trace of six thousand years of injustice.Pelletan.Socrates studied under Aspasia, and Aspasia governed the world under the name of Pericles.Houssaye.The one who has read the book that is called woman knows more than the one who has grown pale in libraries.Houssaye.Woman is the eighth capital sin, but she is perhaps the fourth theological virtue.Houssaye.All passions are good when one masters them.Rousseau.Consideration for woman is the measure of a nation’s progress in social life.Gregoire.There is something of woman in everything that pleases.Dupaty.No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women—not even to his own.Balzac.The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which one can threaten enemies.Chillon.I would have a woman as true as death. At the first real lie that works from the heart outward, she should be tenderly chloroformed into a better world.Holmes.There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.Cervantes.Nature has given to women fortitude enough to resist a certain time, but not enough to resist completely the inclination which they cherish.Dorat.Without woman the two extremes of life would be without succour, and the middle without pleasure.Anonymous.In all eras and all climes a woman of great genius or beauty has done what she chose.Ouida.He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.Bacon.A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear.Mdlle. de Lespinasse.The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.Ninon de l’Enclos.What a wilful, wayward thing is woman! Even in their best pursuits so loose of soul that every breath of passion shakes their frame.Francis.The love of woman is universally for one man. Even though degraded, half-unsexed, outcast, abandoned to despair, she inflexibly seeks her individual own.Browne.Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring man, often means angel!Anonymous.Why should man, who is strong, always get the best of it, and be forgiven so much; and woman who is weak, get the worst and be forgiven so little?Mrs W. K. Clifford.Women.Their love first inspires the poet, and their praise is his best reward.Holmes.Women have no worse enemies than women.Duclos.With what hope can we endeavour to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.Johnson.A mother’s prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.Beecher.Venus always saves the lover whom she leads.Delatouche.A good-tempered woman, of the order yclept buxom, not only warrants a pair of expansive shoulders, but bespeaks our approbation of them.Leigh Hunt.Men love at first and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough; for nature makes women to be won and men to win.Curtis.What we call in menwisdomis in women prudence. It is a partiality to call one greater than the other.Steele.An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery.Chesterfield.Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with their eyes.Mme. de Rieux.Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.Colton.Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds.German Proverb.Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to re-open.De Musset.The head is always the dupe of the heart.La Rochefoucauld.O women! you are very extraordinary children.Diderot.There are different kinds of love, but they have all the same aim: possession.Roqueplan.A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible.Balzac.If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from wits.A. Karr.The great defect in men is that they never put themselves in the place of the woman they judge.Mme. D’Epinay.There is not a love, however violent it may be, to which ambition and interest do not add something.La Bruyère.A man philosophises better than a woman on the human heart, but she reads the hearts of men better than he.Rousseau.What a woman should demand of a man in courtship, or after it, is, first, respect for her, as she is a woman; and next to that, to be respected by him above all other women.Lamb.A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.Hermes.Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.Ruffini.If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a State, we must ask what rank women hold in it. Their influence embraces the whole of life.Aimi Martin.A woman,—where can she put her hope in storms, if not in Heaven?Mitchell.Woman’s heart is like a lithographer’s stone,—what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.Thackeray.The lives of a multitude of women all around us contain a large element of unsuccessful outward or inward ambitions,—vain attempts and prayers.Alger.An ideal type, in which meekness, gentleness, patience, humility, faith and love are the most prominent features, is not naturally male, but female.Lecky.Even though the wife be little, bow down to her in speaking.Talmud.The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.George Eliot.’Tis a terrible thing that we cannot wish young ladies well without wishing them to become old women.Johnson.We men have no right to say it, but the omnipotence of Eve is in humility.Emerson.Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four-and-twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind.De Finod.There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time.Marguerite de Valois.The only true and firm friendship is that between man and woman, because it is the only affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry.A. Comte.The yoke of love is sometimes heavier than that of all the virtues.Montaigne.Love is the poetry of the senses.Balzac.Love is the beginning, the middle and the end of everything.Lacordaire.Women are constantly the dupes, or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.Balzac.When a man says he has a wife, it means that a wife has him.Gavarni.Woman is more constant in hatred than in love.Anonymous.A woman dies twice; the day that she quits life and the day that she ceases to please.Weiss.Love is the association of two beings for the benefit of one.Countess Nathalie.What a woman wills, God wills.Proverb.Some women kindle emotion so rapidly in a man’s heart, that the judgment cannot keep pace with it.Hardy.The Bible says that woman is the last thing which God made. He must have made it on Saturday night. It shows fatigue.Dumas.Woman’s power is for rule, not for battle; and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision.Ruskin.Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow and man the artist.Bayle.Fit the same intellect to a man, and it is a bowstring; to a woman, and it is a harpstring.Holmes.A clip of a wife roasts her husband, stouthearted though he may be, without a fire, and hands him over to premature old age.Hesiod.There are three things I have always loved and have never understood—painting, music, and woman.Fontenelle.Learned women have lost all credit by their impertinent talkativeness and conceit.Swift.The coquette compromises her reputation, and sometimes even her virtue; the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honour in private, and preserves it in public.Mme. du Boccage.When a woman has explicitly condemned a given action, she apparently gathers courage for its commission under a little different conditions.Howells.The homage of a man may be delightful until he asks straight for love, by which woman renders homage.George Eliot.The Divine Right of Beauty is the only one an Englishman ought to acknowledge, and a pretty woman is the only tyrant he is not authorised to resist.Junius.The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.George Eliot.If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is woman.Ward Beecher.God created woman only to tame man.Voltaire.O woman! it is thou that causeth the tempests that agitate mankind.Rousseau.The laughter, the tears, and the song of a woman are equally deceptive.Latin Proverb.A woman’s lot is made for her by the love she accepts.George Eliot.Woman is an idol that man worships until he throws it down.Anonymous.She who dresses for others besides her husband, marks herself a wanton.Euripides.With soft persuasive prayers woman wields the sceptre of the life which she charmeth.Schiller.Men are the cause of women’s dislike for one another.La Bruyère.The beautiful woman always gives me joy, and a high mind, too, if I think what she does for me.Reinmar.Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.Legouvé.A woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.Johnson.The only way to get the upper hand of a woman, is to be more woman than she is herself.Anonymous.The devastating egotism of man is properly foreign to woman; though there are many women as haughty, hard and imperious as any man.Alger.There are some women who think virtue was given them as claws were given to cats—to do nothing but scratch with.Jerrold.An immodest woman is food without salt.Arabian Proverb.The evil in women is usually communicated by men. Much of the deceit of which they are accused is the effect of masculine inoculation.Browne.The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others.Emerson.The friendship of a man is often a support; that of a woman is always a consolation.Rochepedre.Woman is the blood royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedence among them, but let them all be sacred.Burns.The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself to be so, even amidst an army of soldiers.Cervantes.To form devices quick is woman’s wit.Euripides.Woman’s power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.Bovée.To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclinations and the continual attack of man.De Latena.A cunning woman is a knavish fool.Lyttleton.A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.La Rochefoucauld.Even the satyrs, like men, in one way or another, could win the love of a woman.Malcolm Johnson.You wish to create Eve over again, or rather to call forth a female Adam. I object.Sheldon.Let a man pray that none of his woman-kind should form a just estimation of him.Thackeray.In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.Dupuy.The man who seems to care little whether he charms or attracts women is he who offends and seduces.Goethe.To correct the faults of man, we address the head; to correct those of woman, we address the heart.De Beauchêne.The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.Holmes.Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant mourning of happiness.Mme. de Stael.Women have more of what is termed good sense than men. They cannot reason wrong, for they do not reason at all.Hazlitt.In anger against a rival, all women, even duchesses, employ invective. Then they make use of everything as a weapon.Anonymous.What is civilisation? I answer, the power of good women.Emerson.Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never.Beauchêne.The egotism of woman is always for two.Mme. de Stael.The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.Holmes.A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.Karr.Where women are, are all kinds of mischief.Menander.Woman is the symbol of moral and physical beauty.Gautier.No man knows what the wife of his bosom is—no man knows what a ministering angel she is—until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.Washington Irving.Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them.Chesterfield.If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed.Pascal.A worthless girl has enslaved me,—me, whom no enemy ever did.Epictetus.An indigent female, the object probably of love and tenderness in her youth, at a more advanced age a withered flower, has nothing to do but retire and die.Hall.In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, there is but a kiss.Alberic Second.The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved.Rochebrune.A beautiful woman is the paradise of the eyes, the hell of the soul, and the purgatory of the purse.Anonymous.If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of a woman; it never wears out.Alsatian Proverb.One is always a woman’s first lover.De Laclos.A man must be a fool who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her.Balzac.I have seen faces of women that were fair to look upon, yet one could see that the icicles were forming round these women’s hearts.Holmes.The highest mark of esteem a woman can give a man is to ask his friendship, and the most signal proof of her indifference is to offer him hers.Anonymous.The fire of woman’s passion, consuming the wilderness of her limitation, rises to the pure flame that has blazed on every altar of Eros between the Nile and the Columbia.Browne.Frailty! thy name is woman.Shakespeare.The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness when wiped by the hands of love.Anonymous.She could not reconcile the anxieties of spiritual life, involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery.George Eliot.Venus herself, if she were bald, would not be Venus.Apuleius.Women often deceive to conceal what they feel; men to simulate what they do not feel—love.Legouvé.Women are the happiest beings of the creation; in compensation for our services, they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half.De Varennes.No woman is too silly not to have a genius for spite.Anonymous.There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been a mistake. She has lost her crown.George Eliot.There are plenty of women who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook, incapable of interest in affairs.Emerson.A woman is happy and attains all that she desires when she captivates a man; hence the great object of her life is to master the art of captivating men.Tolstoi.The secret of youthful looks in an aged face is easy shoes, easy corsets and an easy conscience.Anonymous.Who does not know the bent of woman’s fancy?Spenser.Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.De Souderi.Every great passion is but a prolonged hope.Feuchères.Beauty in woman is power.De Rotrou.We are by no means aware how much we are influenced by our passions.La Rochefoucauld.To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.Gautier.Glances are the firstbillets-douxof love.De L’Enclos.Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them, the other hidden.Petit-Senn.Where pride begins, love ends.Lavater.The girl who wakes the poet’s sigh is a very different creature from the girl who makes his soup.Sheldon.Women know a point more than the devil.Italian Proverb.To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex.Lytton.Did you ever hear of a man’s growing lean by the reading of “Romeo and Juliet,” or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned?Holmes.Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice.Leigh Hunt.The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband.Anonymous.In our age women commonly preserve the publication of their good offices and their vehement affection toward their husbands until they have lost them.Montaigne.When women cannot be revenged, they do as children do—they then cry.Cardan.At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women; he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be.La Bretonne.
Second thoughts are best. God created man; woman was the after-thought.
Proverb.
I have been ready to believe that we have seen a new revelation, and the name of its Messiah is woman.
Holmes.
The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard further than the loudest call of duty.
Anonymous.
The man who enters his wife’s dressing-room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Balzac.
Be circumspect in your liaisons with women. It is better to be seen at the opera with this man than to be seen at mass with that woman.
Mme. de Maintenon.
Two women placed together make cold weather.
Shakespeare.
I have seen many instances of women running to waste and self-neglect, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven.
Washington Irving.
Physical love is an ephemeral spark designed to kindle in human hearts the flame of a more lasting love. It is the outer court of the temple.
Sabatier.
Between the mouth and the kiss, there is always time for repentance.
Ricard.
Love decreases when it ceases to increase.
Chateaubriand.
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
De Musset.
A woman never commands a man, unless he be a fool, but by her obedience.
Turkish Spy.
Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol.
Gautier.
In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.
Tolstoi.
Women know at first sight the character of those with whom they converse. There is much to give them a religious height to which men do not attain.
Emerson.
Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.
Buxton.
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
Michelet.
Before going to war say a prayer; before going to sea say two prayers; before marrying say three prayers.
Proverb.
If marriages are made in Heaven you had but few friends there.
Scotch Proverb.
A man should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
Joubert.
I think Nature and an angry God produced thee to the world, thou wicked sex, to be a plague to man.
Ariosto.
Women enjoy more the pleasure they give than the pleasure they feel.
Rochepedre.
Woman’s tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust.
Mme. Necker.
Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
Bacon.
Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes.
Legouvé.
On seeing a lady sitting at the dinner-table between two Bishops, Sydney Smith inquired, “Her name is Susanna, I assume?”
With cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones.
Dupuy.
Women who marry seldom act but once; their lot is, ere they wed, obedience unto a father, thenceforth to a husband.
Marston.
It is woman’s way. They always love colour better than form, rhetoric better than logic, priestcraft better than philosophy, and flourishes better than figures.
Anonymous.
A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in her conduct.
La Bruyère.
Tears are the strength of women.
Saint-Evremond.
A woman’s best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies rather than by her knowledge.
Smiles.
A woman’s thoughts run before her actions.
Shakespeare.
It is valueless to a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
La Rochefoucauld.
Silence and modesty are the best ornaments of women.
Euripides.
The plainest man who pays attention to women will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest who does not.
Colton.
A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is loved.
Mme. de Motteville.
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
Addison.
Women are passive agents, and when love prompts them they can outsuffer martyrs.
Massinger.
Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society puts in their way.
Balzac.
A woman (of the right kind) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth followed the reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often the finest of the wheat.
Holmes.
To a woman of spirit, the most intolerable of all grievances is a restraint on the liberty of the tongue.
Junius.
If women were humbler men would be honester.
Vanbrugh.
These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
Shakespeare.
Nature makes fools; women make coxcombs.
Anonymous.
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense or immovable as that of woman for woman.
Landor.
Women are priestesses of the unknown.
Anonymous.
To give you nothing and to make you expect everything, to dawdle on the threshold of love while the doors are closed, this is all the science of a coquette.
De Bernard.
Men always say more evil of a woman than there really is; and there is always more than is known.
Mezeray.
Neither walls, nor goods, nor anything is more difficult to be guarded than woman.
Alexis.
Would you hurt a woman most, aim at her affections.
Wallace.
A wise man ought often to admonish his wife, to reprove her seldom, but never to lay hands on her.
Marcus Aurelius.
A woman of honour should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Marguerite de Valois.
We only demand that a woman should be womanly; which is not being exclusive.
Leigh Hunt.
Man forsakes Christianity in his labours; woman cherishes it in her solitudes and trials. Man lives by repelling, woman by enduring—and here Christianity meets her.
Channing.
It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed even to feign ignorance.
Mme. de Girardin.
A woman’s hopes are woven as sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot.
Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker.
Buckle.
The more idle a woman’s hand, the more occupied her heart.
Dubay.
Women speak easily of platonic love; but while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does not drive platonism from our hearts.
Ricard.
If woman did turn man out of Paradise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him.
Sheldon.
A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one.
Simonides.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Solomon.
How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle women shall be our earliest guides—instilling their own spirits.
Channing.
Let woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation.
Lamb.
The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering characters, or virago queens.
Goldsmith.
A heart which has been domesticated by matrimony and maternity is as tranquil as a tame bullfinch.
Holmes.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
Karr.
A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one is a jewel, the other a treasure.
Napoleon I.
Women especially are to be talked to as below men and above children.
Chesterfield.
When joyous, a woman’s licence is not to be endured; when in terror, she is a plague.
Æschylus.
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.
Lingrés.
When we speed to the devil’s house, woman takes the lead by a thousand steps.
Goethe.
When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times!
Balzac.
Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtier can do.
Thackeray.
Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.
Zimmerman.
Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection.
Schiller.
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.
Mme. du Deffand.
Women are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.
Anonymous.
Women have a perpetual envy of our vices; they are less vicious than we, not from choice, but because we restrict them; they are the slaves of order and fashion.
Johnson.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the “dear deceit” of beauty.
George Eliot.
I detest those women who mount the pulpit and lay their passions bare.
Eugenie de Guérin.
Of all men, Adam was the happiest; he had no mother-in-law.
Parfait.
Beloved darlings, who cover over and shadow many malicious purposes with a counterfeit passion of dissimulate sorrow and unquietness.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
A mother’s tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart.
Eugenie de Guérin.
Lovers have in their language an infinite number of words in which each syllable is a caress.
Rochepedre.
To love is the least of the faults of a loving woman.
La Rochefoucauld.
What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short a duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest.
Rousseau.
There is nothing in love but what we imagine.
St Beuve.
I am a strenuous advocate for liberty and property, but when these rights are invaded by a pretty woman, I am neither able to defend my money nor my freedom.
Junius.
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Chamfort.
To educate a man is to form an individual who leaves nothing behind him; to educate a woman is to form future generations.
Laboulaye.
There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.
Anonymous.
In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them.
Balzac.
It is no more possible to do without a wife than it is to dispense with eating and drinking.
Luther.
God created the coquette as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo.
The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
Willis.
Trust not a woman, even when dead.
Latin Proverb.
I have seen more than one woman drown her honour in the clear water of diamonds.
Comtesse d’Houdetot.
Who trusts himself to woman or to waves should never hazard what he fears to lose.
Oldmixon.
It is vanity that renders the youth of women culpable and their old age ridiculous.
Mme. dé Sonza.
There are three things that women throw away—their time, their money, and their health.
Madame Geoffrin.
The pleasant man a woman will desire for her own sake, but the languishing lover has nothing to hope from but her pity.
Steele.
Woman is an overgrown child that one amuses with toys, intoxicates with flattery, and seduces with promises.
Sophie Arnould.
True modesty protects a woman better than her garments.
Anonymous.
Woman is the sweetest present that God has given to man.
Guyard.
Coquetry is the desire to please, without the want of love.
Rochepedre.
Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.
De Maintenon.
Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies.
De Varennes.
The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman.
Curtis.
Provided a woman be well-principled she has dowry enough.
Plautus.
The more women have risked, the more they are willing to sacrifice.
Duclos.
A flattered woman is always indulgent.
Chenier.
Beauty is the eye’s food and the soul’s sorrow.
German Proverb.
Some cunning men choose fools for their wives, thinking to manage them, but they always fail.
Johnson.
A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects be considered a tolerable blessing.
Washington Irving.
Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman.
Bronson Alcott.
Silence has been given to woman to better express her thoughts.
Desnoyers.
The society of women endangers men’s morals and refines their manners.
Montesquieu.
Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent.
Portuguese Proverb.
The virtuous woman who falls in love is much to be pitied.
La Rochefoucauld.
A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her than with what we bestow upon her.
Dupuy.
Women are extremists; they are either better or worse than men.
La Bruyère.
Woman is the crime of man. She has been his victim since Eden. She wears on her flesh the trace of six thousand years of injustice.
Pelletan.
Socrates studied under Aspasia, and Aspasia governed the world under the name of Pericles.
Houssaye.
The one who has read the book that is called woman knows more than the one who has grown pale in libraries.
Houssaye.
Woman is the eighth capital sin, but she is perhaps the fourth theological virtue.
Houssaye.
All passions are good when one masters them.
Rousseau.
Consideration for woman is the measure of a nation’s progress in social life.
Gregoire.
There is something of woman in everything that pleases.
Dupaty.
No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women—not even to his own.
Balzac.
The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which one can threaten enemies.
Chillon.
I would have a woman as true as death. At the first real lie that works from the heart outward, she should be tenderly chloroformed into a better world.
Holmes.
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
Cervantes.
Nature has given to women fortitude enough to resist a certain time, but not enough to resist completely the inclination which they cherish.
Dorat.
Without woman the two extremes of life would be without succour, and the middle without pleasure.
Anonymous.
In all eras and all climes a woman of great genius or beauty has done what she chose.
Ouida.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Bacon.
A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear.
Mdlle. de Lespinasse.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de l’Enclos.
What a wilful, wayward thing is woman! Even in their best pursuits so loose of soul that every breath of passion shakes their frame.
Francis.
The love of woman is universally for one man. Even though degraded, half-unsexed, outcast, abandoned to despair, she inflexibly seeks her individual own.
Browne.
Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring man, often means angel!
Anonymous.
Why should man, who is strong, always get the best of it, and be forgiven so much; and woman who is weak, get the worst and be forgiven so little?
Mrs W. K. Clifford.
Women.Their love first inspires the poet, and their praise is his best reward.
Holmes.
Women have no worse enemies than women.
Duclos.
With what hope can we endeavour to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
Johnson.
A mother’s prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
Beecher.
Venus always saves the lover whom she leads.
Delatouche.
A good-tempered woman, of the order yclept buxom, not only warrants a pair of expansive shoulders, but bespeaks our approbation of them.
Leigh Hunt.
Men love at first and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough; for nature makes women to be won and men to win.
Curtis.
What we call in menwisdomis in women prudence. It is a partiality to call one greater than the other.
Steele.
An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least sensible of flattery.
Chesterfield.
Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with their eyes.
Mme. de Rieux.
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
Colton.
Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds.
German Proverb.
Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to re-open.
De Musset.
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
La Rochefoucauld.
O women! you are very extraordinary children.
Diderot.
There are different kinds of love, but they have all the same aim: possession.
Roqueplan.
A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible.
Balzac.
If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from wits.
A. Karr.
The great defect in men is that they never put themselves in the place of the woman they judge.
Mme. D’Epinay.
There is not a love, however violent it may be, to which ambition and interest do not add something.
La Bruyère.
A man philosophises better than a woman on the human heart, but she reads the hearts of men better than he.
Rousseau.
What a woman should demand of a man in courtship, or after it, is, first, respect for her, as she is a woman; and next to that, to be respected by him above all other women.
Lamb.
A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.
Hermes.
Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.
Ruffini.
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a State, we must ask what rank women hold in it. Their influence embraces the whole of life.
Aimi Martin.
A woman,—where can she put her hope in storms, if not in Heaven?
Mitchell.
Woman’s heart is like a lithographer’s stone,—what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
Thackeray.
The lives of a multitude of women all around us contain a large element of unsuccessful outward or inward ambitions,—vain attempts and prayers.
Alger.
An ideal type, in which meekness, gentleness, patience, humility, faith and love are the most prominent features, is not naturally male, but female.
Lecky.
Even though the wife be little, bow down to her in speaking.
Talmud.
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
George Eliot.
’Tis a terrible thing that we cannot wish young ladies well without wishing them to become old women.
Johnson.
We men have no right to say it, but the omnipotence of Eve is in humility.
Emerson.
Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four-and-twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind.
De Finod.
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time.
Marguerite de Valois.
The only true and firm friendship is that between man and woman, because it is the only affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry.
A. Comte.
The yoke of love is sometimes heavier than that of all the virtues.
Montaigne.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Balzac.
Love is the beginning, the middle and the end of everything.
Lacordaire.
Women are constantly the dupes, or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
Balzac.
When a man says he has a wife, it means that a wife has him.
Gavarni.
Woman is more constant in hatred than in love.
Anonymous.
A woman dies twice; the day that she quits life and the day that she ceases to please.
Weiss.
Love is the association of two beings for the benefit of one.
Countess Nathalie.
What a woman wills, God wills.
Proverb.
Some women kindle emotion so rapidly in a man’s heart, that the judgment cannot keep pace with it.
Hardy.
The Bible says that woman is the last thing which God made. He must have made it on Saturday night. It shows fatigue.
Dumas.
Woman’s power is for rule, not for battle; and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision.
Ruskin.
Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow and man the artist.
Bayle.
Fit the same intellect to a man, and it is a bowstring; to a woman, and it is a harpstring.
Holmes.
A clip of a wife roasts her husband, stouthearted though he may be, without a fire, and hands him over to premature old age.
Hesiod.
There are three things I have always loved and have never understood—painting, music, and woman.
Fontenelle.
Learned women have lost all credit by their impertinent talkativeness and conceit.
Swift.
The coquette compromises her reputation, and sometimes even her virtue; the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honour in private, and preserves it in public.
Mme. du Boccage.
When a woman has explicitly condemned a given action, she apparently gathers courage for its commission under a little different conditions.
Howells.
The homage of a man may be delightful until he asks straight for love, by which woman renders homage.
George Eliot.
The Divine Right of Beauty is the only one an Englishman ought to acknowledge, and a pretty woman is the only tyrant he is not authorised to resist.
Junius.
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
George Eliot.
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is woman.
Ward Beecher.
God created woman only to tame man.
Voltaire.
O woman! it is thou that causeth the tempests that agitate mankind.
Rousseau.
The laughter, the tears, and the song of a woman are equally deceptive.
Latin Proverb.
A woman’s lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
George Eliot.
Woman is an idol that man worships until he throws it down.
Anonymous.
She who dresses for others besides her husband, marks herself a wanton.
Euripides.
With soft persuasive prayers woman wields the sceptre of the life which she charmeth.
Schiller.
Men are the cause of women’s dislike for one another.
La Bruyère.
The beautiful woman always gives me joy, and a high mind, too, if I think what she does for me.
Reinmar.
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
Legouvé.
A woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Johnson.
The only way to get the upper hand of a woman, is to be more woman than she is herself.
Anonymous.
The devastating egotism of man is properly foreign to woman; though there are many women as haughty, hard and imperious as any man.
Alger.
There are some women who think virtue was given them as claws were given to cats—to do nothing but scratch with.
Jerrold.
An immodest woman is food without salt.
Arabian Proverb.
The evil in women is usually communicated by men. Much of the deceit of which they are accused is the effect of masculine inoculation.
Browne.
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others.
Emerson.
The friendship of a man is often a support; that of a woman is always a consolation.
Rochepedre.
Woman is the blood royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedence among them, but let them all be sacred.
Burns.
The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself to be so, even amidst an army of soldiers.
Cervantes.
To form devices quick is woman’s wit.
Euripides.
Woman’s power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
Bovée.
To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclinations and the continual attack of man.
De Latena.
A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
Lyttleton.
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
La Rochefoucauld.
Even the satyrs, like men, in one way or another, could win the love of a woman.
Malcolm Johnson.
You wish to create Eve over again, or rather to call forth a female Adam. I object.
Sheldon.
Let a man pray that none of his woman-kind should form a just estimation of him.
Thackeray.
In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.
Dupuy.
The man who seems to care little whether he charms or attracts women is he who offends and seduces.
Goethe.
To correct the faults of man, we address the head; to correct those of woman, we address the heart.
De Beauchêne.
The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.
Holmes.
Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant mourning of happiness.
Mme. de Stael.
Women have more of what is termed good sense than men. They cannot reason wrong, for they do not reason at all.
Hazlitt.
In anger against a rival, all women, even duchesses, employ invective. Then they make use of everything as a weapon.
Anonymous.
What is civilisation? I answer, the power of good women.
Emerson.
Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never.
Beauchêne.
The egotism of woman is always for two.
Mme. de Stael.
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Holmes.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
Karr.
Where women are, are all kinds of mischief.
Menander.
Woman is the symbol of moral and physical beauty.
Gautier.
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is—no man knows what a ministering angel she is—until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
Washington Irving.
Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon which scarce any flattery is too gross for them.
Chesterfield.
If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed.
Pascal.
A worthless girl has enslaved me,—me, whom no enemy ever did.
Epictetus.
An indigent female, the object probably of love and tenderness in her youth, at a more advanced age a withered flower, has nothing to do but retire and die.
Hall.
In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, there is but a kiss.
Alberic Second.
The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved.
Rochebrune.
A beautiful woman is the paradise of the eyes, the hell of the soul, and the purgatory of the purse.
Anonymous.
If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of a woman; it never wears out.
Alsatian Proverb.
One is always a woman’s first lover.
De Laclos.
A man must be a fool who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her.
Balzac.
I have seen faces of women that were fair to look upon, yet one could see that the icicles were forming round these women’s hearts.
Holmes.
The highest mark of esteem a woman can give a man is to ask his friendship, and the most signal proof of her indifference is to offer him hers.
Anonymous.
The fire of woman’s passion, consuming the wilderness of her limitation, rises to the pure flame that has blazed on every altar of Eros between the Nile and the Columbia.
Browne.
Frailty! thy name is woman.
Shakespeare.
The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness when wiped by the hands of love.
Anonymous.
She could not reconcile the anxieties of spiritual life, involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery.
George Eliot.
Venus herself, if she were bald, would not be Venus.
Apuleius.
Women often deceive to conceal what they feel; men to simulate what they do not feel—love.
Legouvé.
Women are the happiest beings of the creation; in compensation for our services, they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half.
De Varennes.
No woman is too silly not to have a genius for spite.
Anonymous.
There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been a mistake. She has lost her crown.
George Eliot.
There are plenty of women who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook, incapable of interest in affairs.
Emerson.
A woman is happy and attains all that she desires when she captivates a man; hence the great object of her life is to master the art of captivating men.
Tolstoi.
The secret of youthful looks in an aged face is easy shoes, easy corsets and an easy conscience.
Anonymous.
Who does not know the bent of woman’s fancy?
Spenser.
Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
De Souderi.
Every great passion is but a prolonged hope.
Feuchères.
Beauty in woman is power.
De Rotrou.
We are by no means aware how much we are influenced by our passions.
La Rochefoucauld.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Gautier.
Glances are the firstbillets-douxof love.
De L’Enclos.
Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them, the other hidden.
Petit-Senn.
Where pride begins, love ends.
Lavater.
The girl who wakes the poet’s sigh is a very different creature from the girl who makes his soup.
Sheldon.
Women know a point more than the devil.
Italian Proverb.
To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex.
Lytton.
Did you ever hear of a man’s growing lean by the reading of “Romeo and Juliet,” or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned?
Holmes.
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice.
Leigh Hunt.
The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband.
Anonymous.
In our age women commonly preserve the publication of their good offices and their vehement affection toward their husbands until they have lost them.
Montaigne.
When women cannot be revenged, they do as children do—they then cry.
Cardan.
At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women; he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be.
La Bretonne.