The man who has taken one wife deserves a crown of patience; the man who has taken two deserves two crowns of pity.Proverb.The knowledge of the charms one possesses prompts one to utilise them.Sénancourt.There is no more agreeable companion than the one woman who loves us.St Pierre.Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of the angels.Boufflers.Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none.Bachi.Two smiles that approach each other end in a kiss.Hugo.There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity.Washington Irving.A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred. It is so many more triumphs for her.Ninon de L’Enclos.There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.Lamartine.Women prefer us to say a little evil of them, rather than to say nothing of them at all.Ricard.One syllable of woman’s speech can dissolve more of love than a man’s heart can hold.Holmes.Women, deceived by men, want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge, as good as any other.Beaumanoir.A woman is seldom tenderer to a man than immediately after she has deceived him.Anonymous.Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game abounds.De Latena.Fortune rules in nuptials; women are as like to turn out badly as to prove a source of joy.Euripides.One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret.Chevalier.Man without woman is head without body; woman without man is body without head.German Proverb.Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill-nature.Dupuy.I am sure I do not mean it an injury to women when I say there is a sort of sex in souls.Steele.A woman, when she has passed forty becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women.Balzac.A beautiful woman is never silly; she has the best wit that a man may ask of a woman, she is pretty.Stahl.All the reasons of men are not worth one sentiment of woman.Voltaire.A man never knows how to live until a woman has lived with him.Mere.It may not be impossible to find a constant heart in an unfaithful body.Stahl.Women may be pardoned for lack of common sense. The culprit in them is the heart.Stahl.The history of love would be the history of humanity; it would be a beautiful book to write.Nodier.Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said.Saint Prosper.A woman is frank when she is not uselessly untruthful.France.Jealousy for a woman is only a wound to self-respect. In man it is a torture profound as moral suffering, continuous as physical suffering.France.Love preserves beauty, and the flesh of woman is fed with caresses as are bees with flowers.France.Every lover who tries to find in love anything else than love is not a lover.Bourget.One must be sensual to be human.France.When a lover gives, he demands—and much more than he has given.Parry.In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives.St Beuve.The Egyptian people, wisest then of nations, gave to their Spirit of Wisdom the form of a woman; and into her hand, for a symbol, the weaver’s shuttle.Ruskin.The life of a woman can be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she experiences it, in the third she regrets it.Saint Prosper.The ruses of women multiply with their years.Proverb.Women wish to be loved, not because they are pretty or good or well-bred or graceful or intelligent, but because they are themselves.Amiel.Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable.Voltaire.A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature.La Bruyère.Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses herself and what she has of heart and happiness in the object she loves.Richter.Society is the book of women.Rousseau.Women, like princes, find few real friends.Lyttleton.In love affairs, a young shepherdess is a better partner than an old queen.De Finod.To “Get out of my house,” and “What do you want with my wife?” there is no answer.Don Quixote.Our ice-eyed brain women are really admirable if we only ask of them just what they can give, and no more.Holmes.A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise that can be negotiated at wholesale only on condition that no one takes a part at retail.Karr.Woman is a flower that exhales her perfume only in the shade.De Lamennais.An honest woman is the one we fear to compromise.Balzac.A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her home.Ben Jonson.Heaven has refused genius to woman, in order to concentrate all the fire in her heart.Rivarol.The two pleasantest days of a woman are her marriage day and the day of her funeral.Hipponax.A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.Karr.A lady’s wish—he said, with a certain gallantry of manner—makes slaves of us all.Holmes.In nineteen cases out of twenty, for a woman to play her heart in the game of love is to play at cards with a sharper, and gold coin against counterfeit pieces.Bourget.Women are at ease in perfidy, as are serpents in bushes.Feuillet.Women see without looking; their husbands often look without seeing.Desnoyers.Most women who ride well on horseback have little tenderness. Like the Amazons, they lack a breast.Anonymous.Earth has nothing more tender than a woman’s heart when it is the abode of pity.Luther.In wishing to control her empire, woman destroys it.Canabis.Wherever women are honoured, the gods are satisfied.Laws of Manu.To a woman, the romances she makes are more amusing than those she reads.Gautier.Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more with them.Sophie Arnould.Sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature.Emerson.All the reasoning of man is not worth one sentiment of woman.Voltaire.When an old crone frolics, she flirts with death.Syrus.There never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.Plautus.Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.Bacon.Tenderness has no deeper source than the heart of a woman, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saint-like abnegation.Saint-Foix.It is difficult for a woman to keep a secret; and I know more than one man who is a woman.Lafontaine.All the evil that women have done to us comes from us, and all the good they have done to us comes from them.Aimi Martin.Have a useful and good wife in the house, or don’t marry at all.Euripides.There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable.Houelle.None can do a woman worse despite than to call her old.Ariosto.He who flatters women most pleases them best, and they are most in love with him whom they think is most in love with them.Chesterfield.Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof of her past virtue.Anonymous.Imperious Venus is less potent than caressing Venus.Anonymous.The clown knows very well that the women are not in love with him, but with Hamlet, the fellow in the black cloak and plumed hat.Holmes.Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.Shakespeare.Women, asses, and nuts require strong hands.Italian Proverb.Woman sends forth her sympathies on adventure. She embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless.Washington Irving.A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her.Amiel.What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts.Tolstoi.A woman cannot guarantee her heart, even though her husband be the greatest and most perfect of men.George Sand.It is born in maidens that they should wish to please everything that has eyes.Gleim.The woman who throws herself at a man’s head will soon find her place at his feet.Desnoyers.Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great.Proverb.I confess I like the quality ladies better than the common kind even of literary ones.Holmes.Women sometimes deceive the lover—never the friend.Mercier.You see in no place of conversation the perfection of speech so much as in accomplished women.Steele.A fan is indispensable to a woman who can no longer blush.Anonymous.When a wrong idea possesses a woman, much bitterness flows from her tongue.Euripides.Marriage communicates to women the vices of men, but never their virtues.Fourier.In love, the confidant of a woman’s sorrow often becomes the consoler of it.Anonymous.A royal court without women is like a year without spring, a spring without flowers.Francis I. of France.A woman full of faith in the one she loves is but a novelist’s fancy.Balzac.O Pygmalion, who can wonder (no artist surely) that thou didst fall in love with the work of thine own hands.Leigh Hunt.The mistakes of a woman result almost always from her faith in the good and her confidence in the truth.Balzac.Let an action be never so trivial in itself, women always make it appear of the most importance.Pope.There are only two beautiful things in the world—women and roses; and only two sweet things—women and melons.Malherbe.Before promising a woman to love only her, one should have seen them all, or should see only her.Dupuy.Many young girls have a strange audacity blended with their instinctive delicacy.Holmes.Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.Anonymous.The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.George Eliot.Women are formed by nature to feel some consolation in present troubles, by having them always in their mouth and on their tongue.Euripides.Women give entirely to their affections, set their whole fortunes on the die, lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.Emerson.We ask four things for a woman—that virtue dwell in her heart, modesty in her forehead, sweetness in her mouth, and labour in her hands.Chinese Proverb.In all ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman’s than the man’s, as the choice depended on her the least.Mme. de Rieux.Love lessens the woman’s refinement and strengthens the man’s.Richter.Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing.Proverb.Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl’s virtue.Mme. de Genlis.In condemning the vanity of women, men complain of the fire they themselves have kindled.Lingrée.A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers.Raisson.Women always speak the truth, but not the whole truth.Italian Proverb.If all women’s faces were cast in the same mould, that mould would be the grave of love.Bichat.What colour would it not have given to my thoughts, and what thrice-washed whiteness to my words, had I been fed on woman’s praises.Holmes.One may see the heart of women through the rents which one may make in their self-love.Anonymous.Women and music should never be dated.Goldsmith.Men never are consoled for their first love, nor women for their last.Weiss.A timorous woman often drops into her grave before she is done deliberating.Addison.It is much worse to irritate an old woman than a dog.Menander.There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them; hence it comes that they often meet with devils.Marguerite de Valois.Woman is a charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as her gloves.Balzac.Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women.La Bruyère.Woman’s function is a guiding, not a determining one.Ruskin.At first woman fosters our dearest hopes with the affection of a mother; then, like a giddy hen she forsakes the nest.Goethe.A girl of sixteen accepts love; a woman of thirty incites it.Ricard.A woman who loves, however erring, can never be entirely selfish, for love has a humanising influence, and a true passion renders any self-sacrifice easy.Peabody.A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense.De La Bretonne.Women’s hearts are made of stout leather; there’s a plaguey sight of wear in them.Haliburton.A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid.Rousseau.Woman among savages is a beast of burden; in Asia she is a piece of furniture; in Europe she is a spoiled child.De Meilhan.Women that are least bashful are not infrequently the most modest.Colton.True feeling is a rustic vulgarity the flirt does not tolerate; she counts its healthiest and most honest manifestation all sentiment.Mitchell.Shakespeare has no heroes, he has only heroines.Ruskin.Some men are different; all women are alike.Delvau.The empire of woman is an empire of sweetness, skilfulness and attractiveness; her orders are caresses, her evils are tears.Rousseau.Women need not be beautiful every day of their lives; it is sufficient that they have moments which one does not forget, and the return of which one expects.Cherbuliez.There are some lips from which even the proudest women love to hear the censure which appears to disprove indifference.Lytton.It is in the nature of the feminine sex to seek here below to corrupt men, and therefore wise men never abandon themselves to the seductions of women.Laws of Manu.Would that the race of women had never existed—except for me alone!Euripides.Fools that on women trust; for in their speech is death, hell in their smile.Tasso.At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends.Ricard.Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.Haliburton.The virtue of women is often the love of reputation and quiet.Rochefoucauld.Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature’s casket for the ornamentation and happiness of man.Guyard.Women have such a wonderful power of secreting adjectives that they cannot speak the truth when they try.Sheldon.Women divine that they are loved long before it is told them.Marivaux.The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain, in woman by the heart; it is there that they are most sensitive.Bayle.There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth.De Boufflers.The virtue of widows is a laborious virtue; they have to combat constantly with the remembrance of past bliss.Jerome.A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal capacity.Lavater.Woman’s natural mission is to love, to love but one, to love always.Michelet.One reason why women are forbidden to preach the gospel is that they would persuade without argument and reprove without giving offence.John Newton.How little do lovely women know what awful beings they are in the eyes of inexperienced youth.Washington Irving.During their youth women wish to be treated as divinities; they adore the ideal; they cannot bear the idea of being what Nature wishes them to be.Anonymous.Love is a bird that sings in the heart of a woman.Karr.Woman’s happiness is in obeying. She objects to men who abdicate too much.Michelet.Nature sent woman into the world with the bridal dower of love.Richter.The moral amelioration of man constitutes the chief mission of women.Comte.Most ladies who have had what is considered as an education, have no idea of an education progressive through life.Foster.One of the principal occupations of men is to divine women.Lacretelle.Men do not always love those they esteem; women, on the contrary, esteem only those they love.Dubay.I will not affirm that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.Heine.The only person who can cure one of a woman is that woman herself.Anonymous.Virtue is a beautiful thing in women when they don’t go about with it like a child with a drum, making all sorts of noise with it.Jerrold.Wiles and deceits are woman’s specialities.Æschylus.What man seeks in love is woman; what woman seeks in love is man.Houssaye.There is no grace that is taught by the dancing-master, no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and mere action of some brilliant woman.Emerson.The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china; it is nothing, yet without it, everything would be broken.Mme. de Salm.The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once by holding out no hope to her suitor.Marguerite de Valois.One single honest man may yet be seen; but wander all the world round to find one honest woman, he will search in vain.Wieland.A woman forgives the audacity which her beauty has prompted us to be guilty of.Lesage.To marry a wife, if we regard the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil.Menander.Nothing is more difficult to choose than a good husband—unless it be to choose a good wife.Rousseau.The rudest man, inspired by love, is more persuasive than the most eloquent man, if uninspired.La Rochefoucauld.One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret.Gavarni.Constancy is the chimera of love.Vauvenargues.The pretension of youth always gives to a woman a few more years than she really has.Jouy.I have only one advice to give you—fall in love with all women.Montmarin.A beautiful face is the most beautiful of all spectacles.La Bruyère.The sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of the woman one loves.La Bruyère.To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel!R. L. Stevenson.When one writes of woman he must reserve the right to laugh at his ideas of the day before.Ricard.Who hath a fair wife hath need of more than two eyes.Proverb.Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none.Mme. Bachi.Woman is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings, and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation?Washington Irving.Vanity, shame and, above all, temperament often makes the valour of men and the virtue of women.La Rochefoucauld.Bachelors are providential beings; God created them for the consolation of widows and the hope of maids.De Finod.As the faculty of writing is chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has been always thrown upon the women.Johnson.We look at one little woman’s face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our yearnings.George Eliot.There are some women who seem cold and beautiful stones, their hearts icicles, their tears frozen gems pressed out by injured pride.Alger.Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty—a fine building is lost in a dark lane; a statue should be in the air; much more true is it of woman.Emerson.A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment.De Lenclos.Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit.Feuillet.What is it that love does to women? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.Ouida.Female levity is no less fatal to them after marriage than before.Addison.The highest dressers, the highest face-painters, are not the loveliest women, but such as have lost their loveliness, or never had any.Leigh Hunt.The heart of a woman never grows old; when it has ceased to love it has ceased to live.Rochepedre.Neither in adversity nor in the joys of prosperity let me be associated with woman-kind.Æschylus.Women ask if a man is discreet, as men ask if a woman is pretty.Anonymous.It is only the coward who reproaches as a dishonour the love a woman has cherished for him.Mme. de Lambert.There is scarcely a single cause in which a woman is not engaged in some way fomenting the suit.Juvenal.Do not take women from the bedside of those who suffer; it is their post of honour.Mme. Fée.It is lucky for the poets that their mistresses are not obliged to sit to them. They would never write a line.Leigh Hunt.It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.Rochebrune.Twice is a woman dear—when she comes to the house and when she leaves it.Anonymous.A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.Proverb.Woman is a changeable thing, as our Virgil informed us at school; but her changepar excellenceis from the fairy you woo to the brownie you wed.Lytton.How many ways to the heart has a woman?Channing.What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman’s silence.Michelet.When maidens sue, men live like gods.Proverb.I think it takes a great deal from a woman’s modesty, going into public life; and modesty is her greatest charm.Mrs Ward Beecher.The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense.Addison.With women, friendship ends when rivalry begins.Anonymous.A woman is easily governed if a man takes her hand.La Bruyère.The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.Emerson.The man who can govern a woman can govern a nation.Balzac.An old woman is a very bad bride, but a very good wife.Fielding.Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she was a home-keeper.Howell.Man argues woman may not be trusted too far; woman feels man cannot be trusted too near.Browne.Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.Chesterfield.God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.Lamartine.To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline!George Eliot.The truth is, women are lost because they do not deliberate.Amelia E. Barr.When God thought ofMother, he must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly, so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power and beauty was the conception.Ward Beecher.A woman may always help her husband by what she knows, however little; by what she half knows, or mis-knows, she will only tease him.Ruskin.Diffuse knowledge generally among women, and you will at once cure the conceit which knowledge occasions while it is rare.Sydney Smith.The love of woman has in all ages given birth in man to passionate desires, poetic dreams, deferential attentions, persuasive forms of politeness.Alger.A lady who had not learned discretion by experience and came to an evil end.Holmes.In the elevated order of ideas, the life of man is glory; the life of woman is love.Balzac.Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments.Saville.The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them. “Her feet have touched the meadows and left the daisies rosy.”Ruskin.The masculine personal pronoun is singularly restricted in woman’s judgment. Passion has curtailed her grammar amazingly. She can remember only one number (that is Greek).Browne.There is nothing sadder than to look at dressy old things, who have reached the frozen latitudes beyond fifty, and who persist in appearing in the airy costume of the tropics.Sheldon.A woman finds it a much easier task to do an evil than a virtuous deed.Plautus.I have always said it: Nature meant to make woman its masterpiece.Lessing.Woman is the organ of the devil.De Varennes.Women are a breed the like of which neither sea nor earth produces anything; he who is always with them knows them best.Euripides.Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms.De Finod.Marriage has its unknown great men as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Cheniers, and philosophy its Descartes.Balzac.Vanity ruins more women than love.Du Deffand.Extremes in everything is a characteristic of woman.De Goncourt.One loves more the first time, better the second.Rochepedre.Of all religions love is the most deceptive.Paleologue.The Indian axiom “Do not strike even with a flower a woman guilty of a hundred crimes” is my rule of conduct.Balzac.To be loved as in books is a dream.Bourget.The cruellest revenge of a woman is often to remain faithful to a man.Bossuet.Women, cats and birds are the creatures that waste most time on their toilets.Nodier.Female goodness seldom keeps its ground against laughter, flattery, or fashion.Johnson.I received money with her, and for the dowry have sold my authority.Plautus.There is no torture that a woman would not suffer to enhance her beauty.Montaigne.Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and jumps.Balzac.The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every-day moments of existence.Leigh Hunt.Learn, above all, how to manage women; their thousand “Ahs” and “Ohs,” so thousand fold, can be cured.Goethe.All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine bodies, and of souls that have fine eyes.Joubert.When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues.Balzac.She who spat in my face while I was, shall come to kiss my feet when I am no more.Montaigne.Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an opportunity of being generous.Anonymous.I am glad I am not a man, as I should be obliged to marry a woman.Mme. de Stael.There would be no such animals as prudes or coquettes in the world were there not such an animal as man.Addison.Women have tongues of craft and hearts of guile.Tasso.A coquette has no heart; she has only vanity; it is adorers she seeks, not love.Poincelot.The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.Cervantes.Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.Lemontey.The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red.Holmes.A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion, but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.Baillie.A man can keep another person’s secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her secret though she tells all others.La Bruyère.Men speak of what they know; women, of what pleases them.Rousseau.A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women.Latin Proverb.Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous, of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.Karr.Virtue: a word easy to pronounce, difficult to understand.Voltaire.Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster that devours everything—habit.Balzac.It is easy to find a lover and to retain a friend; what is difficult is to find the friend and retain the lover.Levis.It’s better to love to-day than to-morrow. A pleasure postponed is a pleasure lost.Ricard.Woman conceals only what she does not know.Proverb.Love, pleasure, and inconstancy are but the consequences of a desire to know the truth.Duclos.A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty.Addison.The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly running stream.Catullus.When aladywalks the streets, she leaves her virtuous indignation countenance at home.Holmes.The humour of affecting a superior carriage generally rises from a false notion of the weakness of the female understanding in general.Steele.Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.Goethe.A woman submits to the yoke of opinion, but a man rebels.De Finod.The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother.Diderot.Woman is like the reed that bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.Whately.Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel; men are just the contrary.De Beauchêne.To a susceptible youth, like myself, brought up in the country, women are perfect divinities.Washington Irving.Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults.Girard.
The man who has taken one wife deserves a crown of patience; the man who has taken two deserves two crowns of pity.
Proverb.
The knowledge of the charms one possesses prompts one to utilise them.
Sénancourt.
There is no more agreeable companion than the one woman who loves us.
St Pierre.
Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of the angels.
Boufflers.
Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none.
Bachi.
Two smiles that approach each other end in a kiss.
Hugo.
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity.
Washington Irving.
A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred. It is so many more triumphs for her.
Ninon de L’Enclos.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Lamartine.
Women prefer us to say a little evil of them, rather than to say nothing of them at all.
Ricard.
One syllable of woman’s speech can dissolve more of love than a man’s heart can hold.
Holmes.
Women, deceived by men, want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge, as good as any other.
Beaumanoir.
A woman is seldom tenderer to a man than immediately after she has deceived him.
Anonymous.
Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game abounds.
De Latena.
Fortune rules in nuptials; women are as like to turn out badly as to prove a source of joy.
Euripides.
One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret.
Chevalier.
Man without woman is head without body; woman without man is body without head.
German Proverb.
Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill-nature.
Dupuy.
I am sure I do not mean it an injury to women when I say there is a sort of sex in souls.
Steele.
A woman, when she has passed forty becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women.
Balzac.
A beautiful woman is never silly; she has the best wit that a man may ask of a woman, she is pretty.
Stahl.
All the reasons of men are not worth one sentiment of woman.
Voltaire.
A man never knows how to live until a woman has lived with him.
Mere.
It may not be impossible to find a constant heart in an unfaithful body.
Stahl.
Women may be pardoned for lack of common sense. The culprit in them is the heart.
Stahl.
The history of love would be the history of humanity; it would be a beautiful book to write.
Nodier.
Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said.
Saint Prosper.
A woman is frank when she is not uselessly untruthful.
France.
Jealousy for a woman is only a wound to self-respect. In man it is a torture profound as moral suffering, continuous as physical suffering.
France.
Love preserves beauty, and the flesh of woman is fed with caresses as are bees with flowers.
France.
Every lover who tries to find in love anything else than love is not a lover.
Bourget.
One must be sensual to be human.
France.
When a lover gives, he demands—and much more than he has given.
Parry.
In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives.
St Beuve.
The Egyptian people, wisest then of nations, gave to their Spirit of Wisdom the form of a woman; and into her hand, for a symbol, the weaver’s shuttle.
Ruskin.
The life of a woman can be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she experiences it, in the third she regrets it.
Saint Prosper.
The ruses of women multiply with their years.
Proverb.
Women wish to be loved, not because they are pretty or good or well-bred or graceful or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Amiel.
Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable.
Voltaire.
A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature.
La Bruyère.
Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses herself and what she has of heart and happiness in the object she loves.
Richter.
Society is the book of women.
Rousseau.
Women, like princes, find few real friends.
Lyttleton.
In love affairs, a young shepherdess is a better partner than an old queen.
De Finod.
To “Get out of my house,” and “What do you want with my wife?” there is no answer.
Don Quixote.
Our ice-eyed brain women are really admirable if we only ask of them just what they can give, and no more.
Holmes.
A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise that can be negotiated at wholesale only on condition that no one takes a part at retail.
Karr.
Woman is a flower that exhales her perfume only in the shade.
De Lamennais.
An honest woman is the one we fear to compromise.
Balzac.
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her home.
Ben Jonson.
Heaven has refused genius to woman, in order to concentrate all the fire in her heart.
Rivarol.
The two pleasantest days of a woman are her marriage day and the day of her funeral.
Hipponax.
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
Karr.
A lady’s wish—he said, with a certain gallantry of manner—makes slaves of us all.
Holmes.
In nineteen cases out of twenty, for a woman to play her heart in the game of love is to play at cards with a sharper, and gold coin against counterfeit pieces.
Bourget.
Women are at ease in perfidy, as are serpents in bushes.
Feuillet.
Women see without looking; their husbands often look without seeing.
Desnoyers.
Most women who ride well on horseback have little tenderness. Like the Amazons, they lack a breast.
Anonymous.
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman’s heart when it is the abode of pity.
Luther.
In wishing to control her empire, woman destroys it.
Canabis.
Wherever women are honoured, the gods are satisfied.
Laws of Manu.
To a woman, the romances she makes are more amusing than those she reads.
Gautier.
Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more with them.
Sophie Arnould.
Sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature.
Emerson.
All the reasoning of man is not worth one sentiment of woman.
Voltaire.
When an old crone frolics, she flirts with death.
Syrus.
There never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
Plautus.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Bacon.
Tenderness has no deeper source than the heart of a woman, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saint-like abnegation.
Saint-Foix.
It is difficult for a woman to keep a secret; and I know more than one man who is a woman.
Lafontaine.
All the evil that women have done to us comes from us, and all the good they have done to us comes from them.
Aimi Martin.
Have a useful and good wife in the house, or don’t marry at all.
Euripides.
There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable.
Houelle.
None can do a woman worse despite than to call her old.
Ariosto.
He who flatters women most pleases them best, and they are most in love with him whom they think is most in love with them.
Chesterfield.
Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof of her past virtue.
Anonymous.
Imperious Venus is less potent than caressing Venus.
Anonymous.
The clown knows very well that the women are not in love with him, but with Hamlet, the fellow in the black cloak and plumed hat.
Holmes.
Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.
Shakespeare.
Women, asses, and nuts require strong hands.
Italian Proverb.
Woman sends forth her sympathies on adventure. She embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless.
Washington Irving.
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her.
Amiel.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts.
Tolstoi.
A woman cannot guarantee her heart, even though her husband be the greatest and most perfect of men.
George Sand.
It is born in maidens that they should wish to please everything that has eyes.
Gleim.
The woman who throws herself at a man’s head will soon find her place at his feet.
Desnoyers.
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great.
Proverb.
I confess I like the quality ladies better than the common kind even of literary ones.
Holmes.
Women sometimes deceive the lover—never the friend.
Mercier.
You see in no place of conversation the perfection of speech so much as in accomplished women.
Steele.
A fan is indispensable to a woman who can no longer blush.
Anonymous.
When a wrong idea possesses a woman, much bitterness flows from her tongue.
Euripides.
Marriage communicates to women the vices of men, but never their virtues.
Fourier.
In love, the confidant of a woman’s sorrow often becomes the consoler of it.
Anonymous.
A royal court without women is like a year without spring, a spring without flowers.
Francis I. of France.
A woman full of faith in the one she loves is but a novelist’s fancy.
Balzac.
O Pygmalion, who can wonder (no artist surely) that thou didst fall in love with the work of thine own hands.
Leigh Hunt.
The mistakes of a woman result almost always from her faith in the good and her confidence in the truth.
Balzac.
Let an action be never so trivial in itself, women always make it appear of the most importance.
Pope.
There are only two beautiful things in the world—women and roses; and only two sweet things—women and melons.
Malherbe.
Before promising a woman to love only her, one should have seen them all, or should see only her.
Dupuy.
Many young girls have a strange audacity blended with their instinctive delicacy.
Holmes.
Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.
Anonymous.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot.
Women are formed by nature to feel some consolation in present troubles, by having them always in their mouth and on their tongue.
Euripides.
Women give entirely to their affections, set their whole fortunes on the die, lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.
Emerson.
We ask four things for a woman—that virtue dwell in her heart, modesty in her forehead, sweetness in her mouth, and labour in her hands.
Chinese Proverb.
In all ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman’s than the man’s, as the choice depended on her the least.
Mme. de Rieux.
Love lessens the woman’s refinement and strengthens the man’s.
Richter.
Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing.
Proverb.
Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl’s virtue.
Mme. de Genlis.
In condemning the vanity of women, men complain of the fire they themselves have kindled.
Lingrée.
A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers.
Raisson.
Women always speak the truth, but not the whole truth.
Italian Proverb.
If all women’s faces were cast in the same mould, that mould would be the grave of love.
Bichat.
What colour would it not have given to my thoughts, and what thrice-washed whiteness to my words, had I been fed on woman’s praises.
Holmes.
One may see the heart of women through the rents which one may make in their self-love.
Anonymous.
Women and music should never be dated.
Goldsmith.
Men never are consoled for their first love, nor women for their last.
Weiss.
A timorous woman often drops into her grave before she is done deliberating.
Addison.
It is much worse to irritate an old woman than a dog.
Menander.
There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them; hence it comes that they often meet with devils.
Marguerite de Valois.
Woman is a charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as her gloves.
Balzac.
Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women.
La Bruyère.
Woman’s function is a guiding, not a determining one.
Ruskin.
At first woman fosters our dearest hopes with the affection of a mother; then, like a giddy hen she forsakes the nest.
Goethe.
A girl of sixteen accepts love; a woman of thirty incites it.
Ricard.
A woman who loves, however erring, can never be entirely selfish, for love has a humanising influence, and a true passion renders any self-sacrifice easy.
Peabody.
A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense.
De La Bretonne.
Women’s hearts are made of stout leather; there’s a plaguey sight of wear in them.
Haliburton.
A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid.
Rousseau.
Woman among savages is a beast of burden; in Asia she is a piece of furniture; in Europe she is a spoiled child.
De Meilhan.
Women that are least bashful are not infrequently the most modest.
Colton.
True feeling is a rustic vulgarity the flirt does not tolerate; she counts its healthiest and most honest manifestation all sentiment.
Mitchell.
Shakespeare has no heroes, he has only heroines.
Ruskin.
Some men are different; all women are alike.
Delvau.
The empire of woman is an empire of sweetness, skilfulness and attractiveness; her orders are caresses, her evils are tears.
Rousseau.
Women need not be beautiful every day of their lives; it is sufficient that they have moments which one does not forget, and the return of which one expects.
Cherbuliez.
There are some lips from which even the proudest women love to hear the censure which appears to disprove indifference.
Lytton.
It is in the nature of the feminine sex to seek here below to corrupt men, and therefore wise men never abandon themselves to the seductions of women.
Laws of Manu.
Would that the race of women had never existed—except for me alone!
Euripides.
Fools that on women trust; for in their speech is death, hell in their smile.
Tasso.
At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends.
Ricard.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
Haliburton.
The virtue of women is often the love of reputation and quiet.
Rochefoucauld.
Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature’s casket for the ornamentation and happiness of man.
Guyard.
Women have such a wonderful power of secreting adjectives that they cannot speak the truth when they try.
Sheldon.
Women divine that they are loved long before it is told them.
Marivaux.
The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain, in woman by the heart; it is there that they are most sensitive.
Bayle.
There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth.
De Boufflers.
The virtue of widows is a laborious virtue; they have to combat constantly with the remembrance of past bliss.
Jerome.
A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal capacity.
Lavater.
Woman’s natural mission is to love, to love but one, to love always.
Michelet.
One reason why women are forbidden to preach the gospel is that they would persuade without argument and reprove without giving offence.
John Newton.
How little do lovely women know what awful beings they are in the eyes of inexperienced youth.
Washington Irving.
During their youth women wish to be treated as divinities; they adore the ideal; they cannot bear the idea of being what Nature wishes them to be.
Anonymous.
Love is a bird that sings in the heart of a woman.
Karr.
Woman’s happiness is in obeying. She objects to men who abdicate too much.
Michelet.
Nature sent woman into the world with the bridal dower of love.
Richter.
The moral amelioration of man constitutes the chief mission of women.
Comte.
Most ladies who have had what is considered as an education, have no idea of an education progressive through life.
Foster.
One of the principal occupations of men is to divine women.
Lacretelle.
Men do not always love those they esteem; women, on the contrary, esteem only those they love.
Dubay.
I will not affirm that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Heine.
The only person who can cure one of a woman is that woman herself.
Anonymous.
Virtue is a beautiful thing in women when they don’t go about with it like a child with a drum, making all sorts of noise with it.
Jerrold.
Wiles and deceits are woman’s specialities.
Æschylus.
What man seeks in love is woman; what woman seeks in love is man.
Houssaye.
There is no grace that is taught by the dancing-master, no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and mere action of some brilliant woman.
Emerson.
The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china; it is nothing, yet without it, everything would be broken.
Mme. de Salm.
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once by holding out no hope to her suitor.
Marguerite de Valois.
One single honest man may yet be seen; but wander all the world round to find one honest woman, he will search in vain.
Wieland.
A woman forgives the audacity which her beauty has prompted us to be guilty of.
Lesage.
To marry a wife, if we regard the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil.
Menander.
Nothing is more difficult to choose than a good husband—unless it be to choose a good wife.
Rousseau.
The rudest man, inspired by love, is more persuasive than the most eloquent man, if uninspired.
La Rochefoucauld.
One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret.
Gavarni.
Constancy is the chimera of love.
Vauvenargues.
The pretension of youth always gives to a woman a few more years than she really has.
Jouy.
I have only one advice to give you—fall in love with all women.
Montmarin.
A beautiful face is the most beautiful of all spectacles.
La Bruyère.
The sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of the woman one loves.
La Bruyère.
To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel!
R. L. Stevenson.
When one writes of woman he must reserve the right to laugh at his ideas of the day before.
Ricard.
Who hath a fair wife hath need of more than two eyes.
Proverb.
Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none.
Mme. Bachi.
Woman is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings, and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation?
Washington Irving.
Vanity, shame and, above all, temperament often makes the valour of men and the virtue of women.
La Rochefoucauld.
Bachelors are providential beings; God created them for the consolation of widows and the hope of maids.
De Finod.
As the faculty of writing is chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has been always thrown upon the women.
Johnson.
We look at one little woman’s face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our yearnings.
George Eliot.
There are some women who seem cold and beautiful stones, their hearts icicles, their tears frozen gems pressed out by injured pride.
Alger.
Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty—a fine building is lost in a dark lane; a statue should be in the air; much more true is it of woman.
Emerson.
A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment.
De Lenclos.
Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit.
Feuillet.
What is it that love does to women? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ouida.
Female levity is no less fatal to them after marriage than before.
Addison.
The highest dressers, the highest face-painters, are not the loveliest women, but such as have lost their loveliness, or never had any.
Leigh Hunt.
The heart of a woman never grows old; when it has ceased to love it has ceased to live.
Rochepedre.
Neither in adversity nor in the joys of prosperity let me be associated with woman-kind.
Æschylus.
Women ask if a man is discreet, as men ask if a woman is pretty.
Anonymous.
It is only the coward who reproaches as a dishonour the love a woman has cherished for him.
Mme. de Lambert.
There is scarcely a single cause in which a woman is not engaged in some way fomenting the suit.
Juvenal.
Do not take women from the bedside of those who suffer; it is their post of honour.
Mme. Fée.
It is lucky for the poets that their mistresses are not obliged to sit to them. They would never write a line.
Leigh Hunt.
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
Rochebrune.
Twice is a woman dear—when she comes to the house and when she leaves it.
Anonymous.
A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
Proverb.
Woman is a changeable thing, as our Virgil informed us at school; but her changepar excellenceis from the fairy you woo to the brownie you wed.
Lytton.
How many ways to the heart has a woman?
Channing.
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman’s silence.
Michelet.
When maidens sue, men live like gods.
Proverb.
I think it takes a great deal from a woman’s modesty, going into public life; and modesty is her greatest charm.
Mrs Ward Beecher.
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense.
Addison.
With women, friendship ends when rivalry begins.
Anonymous.
A woman is easily governed if a man takes her hand.
La Bruyère.
The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
Emerson.
The man who can govern a woman can govern a nation.
Balzac.
An old woman is a very bad bride, but a very good wife.
Fielding.
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she was a home-keeper.
Howell.
Man argues woman may not be trusted too far; woman feels man cannot be trusted too near.
Browne.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Chesterfield.
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
Lamartine.
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline!
George Eliot.
The truth is, women are lost because they do not deliberate.
Amelia E. Barr.
When God thought ofMother, he must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly, so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power and beauty was the conception.
Ward Beecher.
A woman may always help her husband by what she knows, however little; by what she half knows, or mis-knows, she will only tease him.
Ruskin.
Diffuse knowledge generally among women, and you will at once cure the conceit which knowledge occasions while it is rare.
Sydney Smith.
The love of woman has in all ages given birth in man to passionate desires, poetic dreams, deferential attentions, persuasive forms of politeness.
Alger.
A lady who had not learned discretion by experience and came to an evil end.
Holmes.
In the elevated order of ideas, the life of man is glory; the life of woman is love.
Balzac.
Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments.
Saville.
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them. “Her feet have touched the meadows and left the daisies rosy.”
Ruskin.
The masculine personal pronoun is singularly restricted in woman’s judgment. Passion has curtailed her grammar amazingly. She can remember only one number (that is Greek).
Browne.
There is nothing sadder than to look at dressy old things, who have reached the frozen latitudes beyond fifty, and who persist in appearing in the airy costume of the tropics.
Sheldon.
A woman finds it a much easier task to do an evil than a virtuous deed.
Plautus.
I have always said it: Nature meant to make woman its masterpiece.
Lessing.
Woman is the organ of the devil.
De Varennes.
Women are a breed the like of which neither sea nor earth produces anything; he who is always with them knows them best.
Euripides.
Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms.
De Finod.
Marriage has its unknown great men as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Cheniers, and philosophy its Descartes.
Balzac.
Vanity ruins more women than love.
Du Deffand.
Extremes in everything is a characteristic of woman.
De Goncourt.
One loves more the first time, better the second.
Rochepedre.
Of all religions love is the most deceptive.
Paleologue.
The Indian axiom “Do not strike even with a flower a woman guilty of a hundred crimes” is my rule of conduct.
Balzac.
To be loved as in books is a dream.
Bourget.
The cruellest revenge of a woman is often to remain faithful to a man.
Bossuet.
Women, cats and birds are the creatures that waste most time on their toilets.
Nodier.
Female goodness seldom keeps its ground against laughter, flattery, or fashion.
Johnson.
I received money with her, and for the dowry have sold my authority.
Plautus.
There is no torture that a woman would not suffer to enhance her beauty.
Montaigne.
Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and jumps.
Balzac.
The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every-day moments of existence.
Leigh Hunt.
Learn, above all, how to manage women; their thousand “Ahs” and “Ohs,” so thousand fold, can be cured.
Goethe.
All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine bodies, and of souls that have fine eyes.
Joubert.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues.
Balzac.
She who spat in my face while I was, shall come to kiss my feet when I am no more.
Montaigne.
Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an opportunity of being generous.
Anonymous.
I am glad I am not a man, as I should be obliged to marry a woman.
Mme. de Stael.
There would be no such animals as prudes or coquettes in the world were there not such an animal as man.
Addison.
Women have tongues of craft and hearts of guile.
Tasso.
A coquette has no heart; she has only vanity; it is adorers she seeks, not love.
Poincelot.
The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
Cervantes.
Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.
Lemontey.
The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red.
Holmes.
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion, but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
Baillie.
A man can keep another person’s secret better than his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her secret though she tells all others.
La Bruyère.
Men speak of what they know; women, of what pleases them.
Rousseau.
A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women.
Latin Proverb.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous, of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Karr.
Virtue: a word easy to pronounce, difficult to understand.
Voltaire.
Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster that devours everything—habit.
Balzac.
It is easy to find a lover and to retain a friend; what is difficult is to find the friend and retain the lover.
Levis.
It’s better to love to-day than to-morrow. A pleasure postponed is a pleasure lost.
Ricard.
Woman conceals only what she does not know.
Proverb.
Love, pleasure, and inconstancy are but the consequences of a desire to know the truth.
Duclos.
A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty.
Addison.
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly running stream.
Catullus.
When aladywalks the streets, she leaves her virtuous indignation countenance at home.
Holmes.
The humour of affecting a superior carriage generally rises from a false notion of the weakness of the female understanding in general.
Steele.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
Goethe.
A woman submits to the yoke of opinion, but a man rebels.
De Finod.
The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother.
Diderot.
Woman is like the reed that bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Whately.
Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel; men are just the contrary.
De Beauchêne.
To a susceptible youth, like myself, brought up in the country, women are perfect divinities.
Washington Irving.
Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults.
Girard.