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Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't. - Unattributed Author, from the pillar erected on the Mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury, in the "Examiner", May 31, 1829 I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take; Or else I doubt if Nature could So fair a creature make. - Unattributed Author, A Praise of his Lady, in "Tottel's Miscellany" Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. - Unattributed Author, Cupid's Whirligig What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire. What lighter than a fire? A woman. What lighter than a woman? Nothing. [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.] - Unattributed Author, Harleian Manuscript (no. 3362, folio 47) It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist, Quand poule parle et coq se taist.] - Unattributed Author, Roman de la Rose, XIV century The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone; I wish to have none other books To read or look upon. - Unattributed Author, Song and Sonnets We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. - Bella Abzug Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! - Joseph Addison, Cato (act III, sc. 2) Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. - Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days--August--Woman Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad. - Anonymous Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good. - Anonymous On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love which heaved her breast, Fair child!--it was the bliss within. - Matthew Arnold, Euphrosyne Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand. - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie, Lays of Scottish Cavaliers--Prince Edward at Versailles But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. - Joanna Baillie, Basil (act V, sc. 3) A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible. - Honore de Balzac By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions. - Honore de Balzac Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil. - Honore de Balzac Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned. - Honore de Balzac One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened. - Honore de Balzac One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love. - Honore de Balzac To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two? - Honore de Balzac When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm. - Honore de Balzac Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. - Honore de Balzac Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. - Honore de Balzac Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! - Honore de Balzac Displaying page 1 of 15 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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