_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._
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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._
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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._
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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 change _par excellence_ is 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 of _Mother_, 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._
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