_Queen Christina._
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Flow, wine! smile, women! and the universe is consoled.
_Beranger._
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Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have
less trouble to speak well than to speak little.
_Du Bose._
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There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she
will be wise.
_Luther._
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Women live only in the emotion that love gives.
_Houssaye._
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On great occasions it is almost always women who have given the
strongest proofs of virtue and devotion.
_Montholon._
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God bless all good women! To their soft hands and pitying hearts we
must all come at last.
_Holmes._
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Neither education nor reason gives women much security against the
influence of example.
_Johnson._
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The hell for women who are only handsome is old age.
_Saint-Evremond._
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Men are women’s playthings, women are the devil’s.
_Victor Hugo._
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A woman, if she is bent on ill, never goes begging to the gardener for
material; she has a garden at home.
_Plautus._
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The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the
garden; and our understandings are wedded to an Eve as fatal as the
mother of their miseries.
_Glanvill._
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Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always
a sublime thing.
_Dumas._
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There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to
look pretty.
_Berryer._
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It is not for good women that men have fought battles, given their
lives, and staked their souls.
_Mrs W. K. Clifford._
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Women’s sympathies give a tone, like the harp of Æolus, to the
slightest breath.
_Mitchell._
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A coquette is a woman who places her honour in a lottery; ninety-nine
chances to one that she will lose it.
_Anonymous._
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The honour of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and
spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be.
_Dupuy._
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The man that lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness,
is a wretch whom ’twere gross flattery to name a coward.
_Tobin._
* * * * *
Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power
the pretensions of a whole life.
_De Bigincourt._
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I do not know that she was virtuous; but she was ugly, and with a woman
that is half the battle.
_Heine._
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Love works miracles every day; such as weakening the strong and
strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of
fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word,
turning everything topsy-turvy.
_Marguerite de Valois._
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In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never
comes until after the disorder is cured.
_De la Tour._
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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._
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Were we perfectly acquainted with our idol, we should never
passionately desire it.
_La Rochefoucauld._
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Love is like the moon; when it does not increase, it decreases.
_Ségur._
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As soon as women are ours, we are no longer theirs.
_Montaigne._
* * * * *
A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she will.
_Proverb._
* * * * *
Woman may complain to God, as subjects do of tyrant princes; but
otherwise she hath no appeal in the causes of unkindness.
_Jeremy Taylor._
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A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married man seeks society
to avoid a _tête-à-tête_.
_Varennes._
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Silence and blushing are the eloquence of women.
_Chinese Proverb._
* * * * *
A woman who has not seen her lover for the whole day considers that day
lost for her; the tenderest of men consider it only lost for love.
_Madame de Salm._
* * * * *
A woman that is ill-treated has no refuge in her griefs but in silence
and secrecy.
_Steele._
* * * * *
There are only two good women in the world; one of them is dead, and
the other is not to be found.
_German Proverb._
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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a
beautiful woman.
_Macaulay._
* * * * *
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than
she can be witty only by the help of speech.
_Hughes._
* * * * *
Every pretty girl one sees is a reminiscence of the Garden of Eden.
_Sheldon._
* * * * *
The Marys who bring ointment for our feet get but little thanks.
_Thackeray._
* * * * *
We censure the inconstancy of women when we are the victims; we find it
charming when we are the objects.
_Desnoyers._
* * * * *
The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher
worth of women is sooner lost than that of men.
_Richter._
* * * * *
Nature has given beauty to women which can resist shields and spears.
She who is beautiful is stronger than iron and flame.
_Anacreon._
* * * * *
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never
seeks to stray beyond it.
_Hawthorne._
* * * * *
Millions of people, generations of slaves, perish in this penal
servitude of the factories merely in order to satisfy the whim of woman.
_Tolstoi._
* * * * *
A woman of sense ought to be above flattering any man.
_Holmes._
* * * * *
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend
their time making nets, not cages.
_Anonymous._
* * * * *
Woman knows that the better she obeys the surer she is to rule.
_Michelet._
* * * * *
I have found that there is an intimate connection between the character
of women and the fancy that makes them choose such and such material.
_Prosper Merimée._
* * * * *
Woman is the most perfect when the most womanly.
_Gladstone._
* * * * *
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
_Heine._
* * * * *
One must have loved a woman of genius in order to comprehend what
happiness there is in loving a fool.
_Talleyrand._
* * * * *
The most reasonable women have hours wherein to be unreasonable.
_Cherbuliez._
* * * * *
The love of a bad woman kills others; the love of a good and noble
woman kills herself.
_George Sand._
* * * * *
Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking
it.
_Ossoli._
* * * * *
Man sometimes asks of a book the truth; a woman always her illusions.
_Goncourt._
* * * * *
Societies commence with polygamy and finish with polyandry.
_Goncourt._
* * * * *
In a truly loving heart either jealousy kills love or love kills
jealousy.
_Bourget._
* * * * *
It is not the treachery of women, but our own, which makes us beware of
them.
_Bourget._
* * * * *
The world either breaks or hardens the heart.
_Chamfort._
* * * * *
A mother’s tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart.
_De Guerin._
* * * * *
Great vices, and great virtues, are exceptions in mankind.
_Napoleon I._
* * * * *
Most women caress sin before embracing penitence.
_Durois-Fontanelle._
* * * * *
When Eve ate the apple she knew she was naked. I have often thought,
as I looked at her dancing daughters, that another bite would be of
service to them.
_Sheldon._
* * * * *
Woman is a creature between man and the angels.
_Balzac._
* * * * *
Education raises many poor women to a stage of refinement that makes
them suitable companions for men of a higher rank, and not suitable for
those of their own.
_Lecky._
* * * * *
Elegance of appearance, ornaments, and dress, these are women’s badges
of distinction; in these they delight and glory.
_Titus Livius._
* * * * *
Men who paint sylphs, fall in love with some _bonne et brave femme_,
heavy-heeled and freckled.
_George Eliot._
* * * * *
Woman—the gods be thanked!—is not even collaterally related to that
sentimental abstraction called an angel.
_Browne._
* * * * *
There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as
there is one on the earth.
_Boufflers._
* * * * *
There are no oaths that make so many perjurers as the vows of love.
_Rochebrune._
* * * * *
The heart makes of woman a sublime being, the senses in their brutality
make of her a true being.
_Bourget._
* * * * *
It is neither honour nor love which makes a betrayed man think of
killing a woman. Murder comes of the senses.
_Bourget._
* * * * *
Love is a religion and its cult must cost more than that of all the
other religions.
_Bourget._
* * * * *
Of an ancient love one may make everything, even a new
love—everything, except friendship.
_Bourget._
* * * * *
One blushes oftener from the wounds of self-love than from modesty.
_Guibert._
* * * * *
When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections
it had discovered.
_De Lenclos._
* * * * *
The passions are the orators of great assemblies.
_Rivarol._
* * * * *
Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to speak well of
his mind.
_La Rochefoucauld._
* * * * *
There are people who are _almost_ in love, _almost_ famous, and
_almost_ happy.
_De Krudener._
* * * * *
Women are an aristocracy.
_Michelet._
* * * * *
Women are too imaginative and sensitive to have much logic.
_Mme. du Deffand._
* * * * *
The man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman
he could love.
_La Bruyère._
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