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Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman. - Coco Chanel Ther seyde oones a clerk in two vers, "What is bettre than Gold? Jaspre. What is bettre than Jaspre? Wisdom. And what is bettre than Wisdom? Womman. And what is bettre than a good Womman? No thyng." - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (l. 2,300), The Tale of Meliboeus Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,--scorn'd! slighted! dismiss'd without a parting pang. - Colley Cibber, Love's Last Shift (act IV, sc. 1) Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation. - Frances P. Cobbe A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. - Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game (bk. 3, ch. 8) O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft. - Abraham Coles Most women will forgive an insult rather than a slight. - Charles Caleb Colton Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys. - Charles Caleb Colton Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths. - Charles Caleb Colton Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest. - Charles Caleb Colton Woman is the masterpiece. - Confucius Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. - William Congreve Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (act III, sc. 8) Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. - Shirley Conran, Superwoman The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter), Rafaelle and Fornarina Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. - Noel Coward But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. - Abraham Cowley Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; Courteous though copy, and gentle, though retired: The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of her heart her every look convey'd. - George Crabbe, Parish Register (pt. II) Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant. - Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (used pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes), The Ambassador (act III) Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me. - Richard Crashaw, Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. - George William Curtis Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. - Mary Daly Displaying page 5 of 23 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
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