_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 men _wisdom_ is 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 first _billets-doux_ of 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._
* * * * *
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._
* * * * *