Congreve.Scylla must have broken off many excellent matches in her time, if she insisted upon all that loved her loving her dogs also.Lamb.A light wife doth make a heavy husband.Shakespeare.Trust a poor woman to dress her children in finery.Mitchell.A woman is turned into a love-magnet by a tingling current of life running around her.Holmes.Women and maidens must be praised, whether truly or falsely.German Proverb.The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female.Winckelmann.The man is the head of the woman, but she rules him by her temper.Russian Proverb.Women are in general more addicted to the petty forms of vanity, jealousy, spitefulness, and ambition, and they are also inferior to men in active courage.Lecky.Certain importunities always please women, even when the importuner does not please.Anonymous.It is difficult for a woman ever to try to be anything good when she is not believed in,—when it is always supposed that she must be contemptible.George Eliot.Woman’s beauty, the forest’s echo, and rainbows soon pass away.German Proverb.The starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment and the infinite enlargements to which they lead.Emerson.However much woman may need deliverance from some outward trials and disabilities, her grand want is a freer, deeper, richer, holier inward life.Alger.He that hath a fair wife never wants trouble.Proverb.The man who awakes the wondering, trembling passion of a young girl always thinks her affectionate.George Eliot.A woman, unlike Narcissus, seeks not her own image and a second I; she much prefers a not I.Richter.Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.Lytton.A wife! A mother! Two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man’s felicity. Theirs is the reign of beauty, of love, of reason,—always a reign.Aimi Martin.Woman is the dwelling-place of religion, and communicates it to the young.Channing.The first and chief thing that should be looked for in a woman is fear.Tolstoi.A woman fascinates a man quite as often by what she overlooks as by what she sees.Holmes.Women have no fear of marriage, because they are so occupied in imagining the happiness it may bring them that they never think of the possible misery it includes.Anonymous.Devotion is the last love of women.Saint-Evremond.A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of something.Poincelot.The beauty of some women has days and seasons, and depends upon accidents which diminish or increase it.Cervantes.We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives.D’Harleville.The woman who plays with the love of a loyal man is a curse; she may close his heart for ever against all confidence in her sex.Anonymous.It is the male that gives charm to womankind, that produces an air in their faces, a grace in their motions, a softness in their voices, and a delicacy in their complexions.Addison.In life, woman must wait until she is asked to love, as in a salon she waits for an invitation to dance.Karr.A sharp eye can almost always see the train leading from a young girl’s eye or lip to the “I love you” in her heart.Holmes.Women, wind, and fortune soon change.Spanish Proverb.A woman without a laugh in her ... is the greatest bore in nature.Thackeray.To women, mildness is the best means to be right.Mme. de Fontaines.Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.Chamfort.The best shelter for a girl is her mother’s wing.Anonymous.Whoever, allured by riches or high rank, marries a vicious woman is a fool.Euripides.For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear.La Bruyère.A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.Victor Hugo.A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.La Rochefoucauld.Women are twice as religious as men; all the world knows that.Holmes.The most dreadful thing against women is the character of the men who praise them.Anonymous.A woman is naturally as much more capricious than a man as she is more susceptible. A slighter shock suffices to jostle her delicate emotions out of delight into disgust.Alger.Love thy wife as thy soul; shake her as a plum-tree.Russian Proverb.Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.Voltaire.Time is the sovereign physician of all passions.Montaigne.Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it.Sand.Folly was condemned to serve as a guide to Love whom she had blinded.La Fontaine.The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it.De Beaufort.The breaking of a heart leaves no traces.Sand.From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.Bourdaloue.’Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.Farquhar.How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands if it were not the custom to weep.Anonymous.Venus with ease engenders wiles in knowing dames; but a woman of simple capacity, by reason of her small understanding, is removed from folly.Euripides.Modesty in women has great advantages; it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness.Fontenelle.Of all wild beasts, on earth or in the sea, the greatest is a woman.Anonymous.One must tell women only what one wants to be known.Beaumarchais.Speak to women in a style and manner proper to approach them, they never fail to improve by your counsels.Steele.A woman without religion is even worse, a flame without heat, a rainbow without colour, a flower without perfume.Mitchell.A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.Tacitus.I don’t want a woman to weigh me in a balance; there are men enough for that sort of work.Holmes.Women soften our character, and yet make us heroic. The same traits of character produce these different effects.Channing.Women, like empresses, condemn to imprisonment and hard labour nine-tenths of mankind.Tolstoi.There is one dangerous science for women, one which let them indeed beware how they profanely touch; that of theology.Ruskin.A woman’s fame is the tomb of her happiness.Proverb.There will be so many more women in heaven than men that any marriage, except of the Mormon kind, would be impossible.Sheldon.Coquette—a female general who builds her fame on her advances.Field.When, like spoiled children, women cry for the moon, it is because they have heard that the moon contains a man.Browne.Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics, or their learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the privileges of ours.Goldsmith.Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone; man only knows man’s insensibility to a new gown.Jane Austen.Women in this degenerate age are rare, to whom aught else but sordid gain is dear.Ariosto.Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the waves.Goethe.Women are right to crave beauty at any price, since beauty is the only merit that men do not contest with them.Dupuy.Your true flirt plays with sparkles; her heart, much as there is of it, spends itself in sparkles; she measures it to sparkle, and habit grows into nature.Mitchell.The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable.Boyer d’Argens.Women are the poetry of the world in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven.Hargrave.The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of women, coeval with the act of breathing.Lesage.Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals.Anonymous.Women are, for the most part, good or bad, as they fall amongst those who practise virtue or vice.Johnson.Women exceed the generality of men in love.La Bruyère.Women commend a modest man, and like him not.Proverb.A delicate woman is the best instrument; she has such a magnificent compass of sensibilities.Holmes.To say “Everyone is talking about him” is a eulogy; but to say “Everyone is talking about her” is an elegy.Anonymous.Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.Victor Hugo.Confound the make-believe women we have turned loose in our streets.Holmes.It is easier to take care of a peck of fleas than of one woman.Proverb.Women are like thermometers, which, on a sudden application of heat, sink at first a few degrees, as preliminary to rising a good many.Richter.Until we know woman, we know notstrength of love. In this we have, perhaps, the best emblem of omnipotence as well as divine goodness.Channing.A coquette sparkles, but it is more the sparkle of a harmless and pretty vanity than of calculation.Mitchell.Her step is music, and her voice is song.Bailey.Man carves his destiny; woman is helped to hers.Julia Ward Howe.If the women did not make idols of us, and if they saw us as we see each other, would life be bearable or could society go on?Thackeray.Women are apt to love the men who they think have the largest capacity of loving.Holmes.There are few women whose charms survive their beauty.La Rochefoucauld.A woman despises a man for loving her unless she happens to return his love.Elizabeth Stoddard.Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes from her.De Méré.Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.Proverb.Women never truly command till they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.Farquhar.A woman who is guided by the head, and not by the heart, is a social pestilence.Balzac.An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette.Poincelot.Voluptuaries know what they talk about when they profess not to care for sense in woman.Leigh Hunt.A woman who has surrendered her lips has surrendered everything.Viaud.A woman repents sincerely of her fault only after being weaned from her infatuation for the one who induced her to commit it.De Latena.Let the great soul incarnated in some woman’s form, poor and sad and single, in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service.Emerson.Woman, naturally enthusiastic of the good and beautiful, sanctifies all that she surrounds with her affection.Mercier.Woman have more understanding than we have, and women of spirit are not to be won by mourners.Steele.Marry a virgin, that thou mayst teach her discreet manners.Hesiod.Pretty women gaze at a beauty with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport.D’Argens.Hell is paved with women’s tongues.Abbé Guyon.A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.De Lenclos.We never fall in love with a woman, in distinction from women, until we can get an image of her through a pinhole.Holmes.However talkative a woman may be, love teaches her silence.Rochebrune.There is something so gross in the carriage of some wives that they lose their husbands’ hearts.Budgell.Men declare their love before they feel it; women confess theirs only after they have proved it.De Latena.In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that one finds pleasure in frequently recommencing.Prince de Ligne.The heart of a loving woman is a golden sanctuary, where often there reigns an idol of clay.Limayrae.Women call repentance the sweet remembrance of their faults and the bitter regret of their inability to recommence them.Beaumanoir.Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors.Lemontey.She had married her husband for his wit, and was willing to do the next best thing for any man who was wittier.Francis Prevost.Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness and saved by their coquetry.Mdlle. Azaïs.In love only the awkward are punished—like the Spartan thieves.Anonymous.The action of woman on our destiny is unceasing.Lord Beaconsfield.The weaknesses of women have been given them by nature to exercise the virtues of men.Mme. Necker.The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she loves.Mirabeau.Love renders chaste the most voluptuous pleasures.Virey.Manners, morals, customs change: the passions are always the same.Mme. de Flahaut.Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence.Du Bosc.Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness.Mme. de Rieux.Orpheus went to Hell to find his wife: how many widowers would not even go to Heaven to find theirs?Petit-Senn.When a lover gives, he demands—and much more than he has given.Parny.A reputation for success has as much influence with women as a reputation for wealth has with men.Lord Beaconsfield.Women give themselves to God when the Devil wants nothing more to do with them.Sophie Arnould.The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses.Karr.Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty.Massias.Women distrust men too much in general, and not enough in particular.Commerson.There is a magic in Duty which sustains judges, inflames warriors and cools the married.Dupuy.There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable.Hovellé.Love is a beggar who still begs when one has given him everything.Rochepedre.The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful.Mme. Necker.The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.De Lenclos.A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers.Raisson.Science seldom renders men amiable; women never.Beauchêne.Women are in the moral world what flowers are in the physical.Maréchal.Who loves not women, wine and song, remains a fool his whole life long.Martin Luther.Virtue and Love are two ogres: one must eat the other.D’Houdetot.Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.De Lenclos.Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter.Diderot.A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of something.Poincelot.The society of women endangers men’s morals and refines their manners.Montesquieu.Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more interesting than history.Chamfort.Fortune hath somewhat of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, is commonly the further off.Charles V.Great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.Voltaire.One is always a woman’s first lover.De Laclos.Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover.Lammenais.Devotion is the last love of women.St Evremond.Love, that sometimes corrupts pure bodies, often purifies corrupt hearts.Laténa.Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies.De Varennes.Marriage is often but ennui for two.Commerson.Love that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it.Sénancourt.Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature’s casket for the ornamentation and happiness of man.Guyard.Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.Lacon.Love is like medical science—the art of assisting Nature.Lallemand.To continue love in marriage is a science.Mme. Reyband.The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry.Jouy.It is not love that ruins us; it is the way we make it.Bussy-Rabutin.Marriage in our days?—I would almost say that it is a rape by contract.Michelet.A coquette often loses her reputation while she possesses her virtue.Spectator.A lover is a man who endeavours to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be: this is the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous.Chamfort.Those who always speak well of women do not know them enough; those who always speak ill of them do not know them at all.Pigault-Lebrun.Possession is the touchstone of love.Panage.Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes from her.Méré.It is a terrible thing to be obliged to love by contract.Bussy-Rabutin.Our strong passions break into a thousand purposes; women have one.Lord Beaconsfield.Women alone can organise a drawing-room: man succeeds sometimes in a library.Lord Beaconsfield.Male firmness is very often obstinacy. Women have always something better, worth all qualities. They have tact.Lord Beaconsfield.The woman who is talked about is generally virtuous, and she is only abused because she devotes toonethe charms which all wish to enjoy.Lord Beaconsfield.There is no mortification, however keen, no misery, however desperate, which the spirit of woman cannot in some degree lighten or alleviate.Lord Beaconsfield.The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.Lord Beaconsfield.Where there are crowned heads there are always some charming women.Lord Beaconsfield.There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.Fielding.It is only a woman that can make a man become the parody of himself.French Proverb.There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth.Boufflers.The End
Congreve.
Scylla must have broken off many excellent matches in her time, if she insisted upon all that loved her loving her dogs also.
Lamb.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Shakespeare.
Trust a poor woman to dress her children in finery.
Mitchell.
A woman is turned into a love-magnet by a tingling current of life running around her.
Holmes.
Women and maidens must be praised, whether truly or falsely.
German Proverb.
The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female.
Winckelmann.
The man is the head of the woman, but she rules him by her temper.
Russian Proverb.
Women are in general more addicted to the petty forms of vanity, jealousy, spitefulness, and ambition, and they are also inferior to men in active courage.
Lecky.
Certain importunities always please women, even when the importuner does not please.
Anonymous.
It is difficult for a woman ever to try to be anything good when she is not believed in,—when it is always supposed that she must be contemptible.
George Eliot.
Woman’s beauty, the forest’s echo, and rainbows soon pass away.
German Proverb.
The starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment and the infinite enlargements to which they lead.
Emerson.
However much woman may need deliverance from some outward trials and disabilities, her grand want is a freer, deeper, richer, holier inward life.
Alger.
He that hath a fair wife never wants trouble.
Proverb.
The man who awakes the wondering, trembling passion of a young girl always thinks her affectionate.
George Eliot.
A woman, unlike Narcissus, seeks not her own image and a second I; she much prefers a not I.
Richter.
Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
Lytton.
A wife! A mother! Two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man’s felicity. Theirs is the reign of beauty, of love, of reason,—always a reign.
Aimi Martin.
Woman is the dwelling-place of religion, and communicates it to the young.
Channing.
The first and chief thing that should be looked for in a woman is fear.
Tolstoi.
A woman fascinates a man quite as often by what she overlooks as by what she sees.
Holmes.
Women have no fear of marriage, because they are so occupied in imagining the happiness it may bring them that they never think of the possible misery it includes.
Anonymous.
Devotion is the last love of women.
Saint-Evremond.
A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of something.
Poincelot.
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, and depends upon accidents which diminish or increase it.
Cervantes.
We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives.
D’Harleville.
The woman who plays with the love of a loyal man is a curse; she may close his heart for ever against all confidence in her sex.
Anonymous.
It is the male that gives charm to womankind, that produces an air in their faces, a grace in their motions, a softness in their voices, and a delicacy in their complexions.
Addison.
In life, woman must wait until she is asked to love, as in a salon she waits for an invitation to dance.
Karr.
A sharp eye can almost always see the train leading from a young girl’s eye or lip to the “I love you” in her heart.
Holmes.
Women, wind, and fortune soon change.
Spanish Proverb.
A woman without a laugh in her ... is the greatest bore in nature.
Thackeray.
To women, mildness is the best means to be right.
Mme. de Fontaines.
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
Chamfort.
The best shelter for a girl is her mother’s wing.
Anonymous.
Whoever, allured by riches or high rank, marries a vicious woman is a fool.
Euripides.
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear.
La Bruyère.
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
Victor Hugo.
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.
La Rochefoucauld.
Women are twice as religious as men; all the world knows that.
Holmes.
The most dreadful thing against women is the character of the men who praise them.
Anonymous.
A woman is naturally as much more capricious than a man as she is more susceptible. A slighter shock suffices to jostle her delicate emotions out of delight into disgust.
Alger.
Love thy wife as thy soul; shake her as a plum-tree.
Russian Proverb.
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
Voltaire.
Time is the sovereign physician of all passions.
Montaigne.
Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it.
Sand.
Folly was condemned to serve as a guide to Love whom she had blinded.
La Fontaine.
The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it.
De Beaufort.
The breaking of a heart leaves no traces.
Sand.
From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.
Bourdaloue.
’Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
Farquhar.
How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands if it were not the custom to weep.
Anonymous.
Venus with ease engenders wiles in knowing dames; but a woman of simple capacity, by reason of her small understanding, is removed from folly.
Euripides.
Modesty in women has great advantages; it enhances beauty, and serves as a veil to uncomeliness.
Fontenelle.
Of all wild beasts, on earth or in the sea, the greatest is a woman.
Anonymous.
One must tell women only what one wants to be known.
Beaumarchais.
Speak to women in a style and manner proper to approach them, they never fail to improve by your counsels.
Steele.
A woman without religion is even worse, a flame without heat, a rainbow without colour, a flower without perfume.
Mitchell.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
Tacitus.
I don’t want a woman to weigh me in a balance; there are men enough for that sort of work.
Holmes.
Women soften our character, and yet make us heroic. The same traits of character produce these different effects.
Channing.
Women, like empresses, condemn to imprisonment and hard labour nine-tenths of mankind.
Tolstoi.
There is one dangerous science for women, one which let them indeed beware how they profanely touch; that of theology.
Ruskin.
A woman’s fame is the tomb of her happiness.
Proverb.
There will be so many more women in heaven than men that any marriage, except of the Mormon kind, would be impossible.
Sheldon.
Coquette—a female general who builds her fame on her advances.
Field.
When, like spoiled children, women cry for the moon, it is because they have heard that the moon contains a man.
Browne.
Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics, or their learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the privileges of ours.
Goldsmith.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone; man only knows man’s insensibility to a new gown.
Jane Austen.
Women in this degenerate age are rare, to whom aught else but sordid gain is dear.
Ariosto.
Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the waves.
Goethe.
Women are right to crave beauty at any price, since beauty is the only merit that men do not contest with them.
Dupuy.
Your true flirt plays with sparkles; her heart, much as there is of it, spends itself in sparkles; she measures it to sparkle, and habit grows into nature.
Mitchell.
The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable.
Boyer d’Argens.
Women are the poetry of the world in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven.
Hargrave.
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of women, coeval with the act of breathing.
Lesage.
Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals.
Anonymous.
Women are, for the most part, good or bad, as they fall amongst those who practise virtue or vice.
Johnson.
Women exceed the generality of men in love.
La Bruyère.
Women commend a modest man, and like him not.
Proverb.
A delicate woman is the best instrument; she has such a magnificent compass of sensibilities.
Holmes.
To say “Everyone is talking about him” is a eulogy; but to say “Everyone is talking about her” is an elegy.
Anonymous.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo.
Confound the make-believe women we have turned loose in our streets.
Holmes.
It is easier to take care of a peck of fleas than of one woman.
Proverb.
Women are like thermometers, which, on a sudden application of heat, sink at first a few degrees, as preliminary to rising a good many.
Richter.
Until we know woman, we know notstrength of love. In this we have, perhaps, the best emblem of omnipotence as well as divine goodness.
Channing.
A coquette sparkles, but it is more the sparkle of a harmless and pretty vanity than of calculation.
Mitchell.
Her step is music, and her voice is song.
Bailey.
Man carves his destiny; woman is helped to hers.
Julia Ward Howe.
If the women did not make idols of us, and if they saw us as we see each other, would life be bearable or could society go on?
Thackeray.
Women are apt to love the men who they think have the largest capacity of loving.
Holmes.
There are few women whose charms survive their beauty.
La Rochefoucauld.
A woman despises a man for loving her unless she happens to return his love.
Elizabeth Stoddard.
Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes from her.
De Méré.
Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.
Proverb.
Women never truly command till they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.
Farquhar.
A woman who is guided by the head, and not by the heart, is a social pestilence.
Balzac.
An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette.
Poincelot.
Voluptuaries know what they talk about when they profess not to care for sense in woman.
Leigh Hunt.
A woman who has surrendered her lips has surrendered everything.
Viaud.
A woman repents sincerely of her fault only after being weaned from her infatuation for the one who induced her to commit it.
De Latena.
Let the great soul incarnated in some woman’s form, poor and sad and single, in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service.
Emerson.
Woman, naturally enthusiastic of the good and beautiful, sanctifies all that she surrounds with her affection.
Mercier.
Woman have more understanding than we have, and women of spirit are not to be won by mourners.
Steele.
Marry a virgin, that thou mayst teach her discreet manners.
Hesiod.
Pretty women gaze at a beauty with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport.
D’Argens.
Hell is paved with women’s tongues.
Abbé Guyon.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
De Lenclos.
We never fall in love with a woman, in distinction from women, until we can get an image of her through a pinhole.
Holmes.
However talkative a woman may be, love teaches her silence.
Rochebrune.
There is something so gross in the carriage of some wives that they lose their husbands’ hearts.
Budgell.
Men declare their love before they feel it; women confess theirs only after they have proved it.
De Latena.
In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that one finds pleasure in frequently recommencing.
Prince de Ligne.
The heart of a loving woman is a golden sanctuary, where often there reigns an idol of clay.
Limayrae.
Women call repentance the sweet remembrance of their faults and the bitter regret of their inability to recommence them.
Beaumanoir.
Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors.
Lemontey.
She had married her husband for his wit, and was willing to do the next best thing for any man who was wittier.
Francis Prevost.
Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness and saved by their coquetry.
Mdlle. Azaïs.
In love only the awkward are punished—like the Spartan thieves.
Anonymous.
The action of woman on our destiny is unceasing.
Lord Beaconsfield.
The weaknesses of women have been given them by nature to exercise the virtues of men.
Mme. Necker.
The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she loves.
Mirabeau.
Love renders chaste the most voluptuous pleasures.
Virey.
Manners, morals, customs change: the passions are always the same.
Mme. de Flahaut.
Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence.
Du Bosc.
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness.
Mme. de Rieux.
Orpheus went to Hell to find his wife: how many widowers would not even go to Heaven to find theirs?
Petit-Senn.
When a lover gives, he demands—and much more than he has given.
Parny.
A reputation for success has as much influence with women as a reputation for wealth has with men.
Lord Beaconsfield.
Women give themselves to God when the Devil wants nothing more to do with them.
Sophie Arnould.
The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses.
Karr.
Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty.
Massias.
Women distrust men too much in general, and not enough in particular.
Commerson.
There is a magic in Duty which sustains judges, inflames warriors and cools the married.
Dupuy.
There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable.
Hovellé.
Love is a beggar who still begs when one has given him everything.
Rochepedre.
The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful.
Mme. Necker.
The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.
De Lenclos.
A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers.
Raisson.
Science seldom renders men amiable; women never.
Beauchêne.
Women are in the moral world what flowers are in the physical.
Maréchal.
Who loves not women, wine and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther.
Virtue and Love are two ogres: one must eat the other.
D’Houdetot.
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
De Lenclos.
Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter.
Diderot.
A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of something.
Poincelot.
The society of women endangers men’s morals and refines their manners.
Montesquieu.
Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more interesting than history.
Chamfort.
Fortune hath somewhat of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, is commonly the further off.
Charles V.
Great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.
Voltaire.
One is always a woman’s first lover.
De Laclos.
Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover.
Lammenais.
Devotion is the last love of women.
St Evremond.
Love, that sometimes corrupts pure bodies, often purifies corrupt hearts.
Laténa.
Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies.
De Varennes.
Marriage is often but ennui for two.
Commerson.
Love that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it.
Sénancourt.
Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature’s casket for the ornamentation and happiness of man.
Guyard.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Lacon.
Love is like medical science—the art of assisting Nature.
Lallemand.
To continue love in marriage is a science.
Mme. Reyband.
The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry.
Jouy.
It is not love that ruins us; it is the way we make it.
Bussy-Rabutin.
Marriage in our days?—I would almost say that it is a rape by contract.
Michelet.
A coquette often loses her reputation while she possesses her virtue.
Spectator.
A lover is a man who endeavours to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be: this is the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous.
Chamfort.
Those who always speak well of women do not know them enough; those who always speak ill of them do not know them at all.
Pigault-Lebrun.
Possession is the touchstone of love.
Panage.
Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes from her.
Méré.
It is a terrible thing to be obliged to love by contract.
Bussy-Rabutin.
Our strong passions break into a thousand purposes; women have one.
Lord Beaconsfield.
Women alone can organise a drawing-room: man succeeds sometimes in a library.
Lord Beaconsfield.
Male firmness is very often obstinacy. Women have always something better, worth all qualities. They have tact.
Lord Beaconsfield.
The woman who is talked about is generally virtuous, and she is only abused because she devotes toonethe charms which all wish to enjoy.
Lord Beaconsfield.
There is no mortification, however keen, no misery, however desperate, which the spirit of woman cannot in some degree lighten or alleviate.
Lord Beaconsfield.
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
Lord Beaconsfield.
Where there are crowned heads there are always some charming women.
Lord Beaconsfield.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Fielding.
It is only a woman that can make a man become the parody of himself.
French Proverb.
There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth.
Boufflers.
The End