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And one false step entirely damns her fame. In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back on what she was before; She sets like stars that fall, to rise no more. - Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore (act I) Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. - Helen Rowland Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through. - Giovanni Ruffini There is on earth no greater treasure or more desirable possession for man, than a woman who truly loves him. - Charles Sainte-Foi The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty. - Bernadin de St. Pierre Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them know them still less. - Constance Pipelet de Salm He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of a woman. [It., Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina, E'l vago vento spera in rete acogliere Chi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.] - Jacopo Sannazaro (Sannazarius), Ecloga Octava Such, Polly, are your sex--part truth, part fiction; Some thought, much whim, and all a contradiction. - Richard Savage, To a Young Lady 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. - John Faucit Saville Honor to women! they twine and weave the roses of heaven into the life of man; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds of love; and, concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they cherish carefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy hands. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller How the best state to know?--it is found out Like the best woman;--that least talked about. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Oh, pearl of all things, woman! Adored be the artist who created thee! - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller With soft, persuasive prayers woman wields the sceptre of the life which she charmeth; she lulls the discord which roars and glows,--teaches the fierce powers which hate each other like fiends to embrace in the bonds of love, and draws together what are forever flying asunder. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Honor Women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life. [Ger., Ehret die Frauen! sie flechten und weben Himmlische Rosen in's irdische Leben.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wurde der Frauen The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men; . . . and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. - Arthur Schopenhauer, On Women Widowed wife and wedded maid. - C.P. Scott, The Betrothed (last chapter) O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto VI, st. 30) Woman's faith, and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust. - Sir Walter Scott, The Betrothed (ch. XX), part of the Tales of the Crusaders Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow. - Johann Gottfried Seume A maid That paragons description and wild fame; One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation Does tire the ingener. - William Shakespeare A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man. - William Shakespeare Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is! - William Shakespeare Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self. - William Shakespeare He bears an honorable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly. - William Shakespeare Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This cannot be cunning in her. If it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. - William Shakespeare Displaying page 17 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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