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diff --git a/old/55722-0.txt b/old/55722-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 97a418c..0000000 --- a/old/55722-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7494 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woman and Her Wits, by G. F. Monkshood - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: Woman and Her Wits - Epigrams on Woman, Love, and Beauty - -Author: G. F. Monkshood - -Release Date: October 9, 2017 [EBook #55722] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOMAN AND HER WITS *** - - - - -Produced by Turgut Dincer, David E. Brown and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - _Woman and the Wits_ - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - - Woman - and - Her Wits - - Epigrams on Woman, - Love, and Beauty - Collected and Edited by - G. F. MONKSHOOD - - [Illustration] - - New York Boston - - H. M. CALDWELL CO. - - - - - Dedicated - TO - R. R. - WITH HOMAGE. - - G. F. M. - - LONDON, 1899. - - - - -_PREFACE_ - - -_Until some fortunate being—wit, student, and man of the world (he -will have to be all three)—can, in a cunningly chosen library, write -the history of the Epigram, and the birth and growth of epigrammatic -thought, we shall always be in doubt as to what an epigram is, and most -people will be in doubt as to where the best epigrams are. The word -itself is as difficult to define as its own essences—wit, humour, -style, etc. We recognise the epigram when uttered or printed just as -swiftly as we recognise beauty in a woman, yet rarely can we describe -either. The sheer study that awaits the historian of the Epigram -has, doubtless, been a great deterrent; he would have to consider -epigrams from the Bible and the apocryphal writings downwards! In -“Woman and the Wits” I have brought together some of the wisest, -wittiest, and tenderest epigrams, proverbs, axioms, adages or short, -pithy sentences—call them what you will—relating to the woman and -women, and also to the passions, affections, sentiments, and emotions -generally._ - -_My thanks are due principally to Mr. Morton and Mr. Du Bois for many -excellent epigrams and for hints as to arrangement._ - - _G. F. MONKSHOOD._ - - _London, 1899._ - - - - -Woman and the Wits - - -Second thoughts are best. God created man; woman was the after-thought. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -I have been ready to believe that we have seen a new revelation, and -the name of its Messiah is woman. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard further than the loudest -call of duty. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The man who enters his wife’s dressing-room is either a philosopher or -a fool. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -Be circumspect in your liaisons with women. It is better to be seen at -the opera with this man than to be seen at mass with that woman. - - _Mme. de Maintenon._ - - * * * * * - -Two women placed together make cold weather. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -I have seen many instances of women running to waste and self-neglect, -and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been -exhaled to heaven. - - _Washington Irving._ - - * * * * * - -Physical love is an ephemeral spark designed to kindle in human hearts -the flame of a more lasting love. It is the outer court of the temple. - - _Sabatier._ - - * * * * * - -Between the mouth and the kiss, there is always time for repentance. - - _Ricard._ - - * * * * * - -Love decreases when it ceases to increase. - - _Chateaubriand._ - - * * * * * - -Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become -intoxicated. - - _De Musset._ - - * * * * * - -A woman never commands a man, unless he be a fool, but by her obedience. - - _Turkish Spy._ - - * * * * * - -Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar -reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol. - - _Gautier._ - - * * * * * - -In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an -instrument of pleasure. - - _Tolstoi._ - - * * * * * - -Women know at first sight the character of those with whom they -converse. There is much to give them a religious height to which men do -not attain. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her -whom they most scorn. - - _Buxton._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. - - _Michelet._ - - * * * * * - -Before going to war say a prayer; before going to sea say two prayers; -before marrying say three prayers. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -If marriages are made in Heaven you had but few friends there. - - _Scotch Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -A man should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for -a friend, were she a man. - - _Joubert._ - - * * * * * - -I think Nature and an angry God produced thee to the world, thou wicked -sex, to be a plague to man. - - _Ariosto._ - - * * * * * - -Women enjoy more the pleasure they give than the pleasure they feel. - - _Rochepedre._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. - - _Mme. Necker._ - - * * * * * - -Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. - - _Bacon._ - - * * * * * - -Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a -multitude with a few loaves and fishes. - - _Legouvé._ - - * * * * * - -On seeing a lady sitting at the dinner-table between two Bishops, -Sydney Smith inquired, “Her name is Susanna, I assume?” - - * * * * * - -With cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer -conquests but more durable ones. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -Women who marry seldom act but once; their lot is, ere they wed, -obedience unto a father, thenceforth to a husband. - - _Marston._ - - * * * * * - -It is woman’s way. They always love colour better than form, rhetoric -better than logic, priestcraft better than philosophy, and flourishes -better than figures. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows -hers in her conduct. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -Tears are the strength of women. - - _Saint-Evremond._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her -affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies rather than by her -knowledge. - - _Smiles._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s thoughts run before her actions. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -It is valueless to a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty -unless young. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -Silence and modesty are the best ornaments of women. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -The plainest man who pays attention to women will sometimes succeed as -well as the handsomest who does not. - - _Colton._ - - * * * * * - -A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is -loved. - - _Mme. de Motteville._ - - * * * * * - -As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. - - _Addison._ - - * * * * * - -Women are passive agents, and when love prompts them they can outsuffer -martyrs. - - _Massinger._ - - * * * * * - -Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends -upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society -puts in their way. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -A woman (of the right kind) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth -followed the reapers of Boaz, and her gleanings are often the finest of -the wheat. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -To a woman of spirit, the most intolerable of all grievances is a -restraint on the liberty of the tongue. - - _Junius._ - - * * * * * - -If women were humbler men would be honester. - - _Vanbrugh._ - - * * * * * - -These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -Nature makes fools; women make coxcombs. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; -no hatred so intense or immovable as that of woman for woman. - - _Landor._ - - * * * * * - -Women are priestesses of the unknown. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -To give you nothing and to make you expect everything, to dawdle on the -threshold of love while the doors are closed, this is all the science -of a coquette. - - _De Bernard._ - - * * * * * - -Men always say more evil of a woman than there really is; and there is -always more than is known. - - _Mezeray._ - - * * * * * - -Neither walls, nor goods, nor anything is more difficult to be guarded -than woman. - - _Alexis._ - - * * * * * - -Would you hurt a woman most, aim at her affections. - - _Wallace._ - - * * * * * - -A wise man ought often to admonish his wife, to reprove her seldom, but -never to lay hands on her. - - _Marcus Aurelius._ - - * * * * * - -A woman of honour should never suspect another of things she would not -do herself. - - _Marguerite de Valois._ - - * * * * * - -We only demand that a woman should be womanly; which is not being -exclusive. - - _Leigh Hunt._ - - * * * * * - -Man forsakes Christianity in his labours; woman cherishes it in her -solitudes and trials. Man lives by repelling, woman by enduring—and -here Christianity meets her. - - _Channing._ - - * * * * * - -It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all the modesty of -girlhood, without being allowed even to feign ignorance. - - _Mme. de Girardin._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s hopes are woven as sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see -quicker. - - _Buckle._ - - * * * * * - -The more idle a woman’s hand, the more occupied her heart. - - _Dubay._ - - * * * * * - -Women speak easily of platonic love; but while they appear to esteem -it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does not -drive platonism from our hearts. - - _Ricard._ - - * * * * * - -If woman did turn man out of Paradise, she has done her best ever since -to make it up to him. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor -anything that is worse than a bad one. - - _Simonides._ - - * * * * * - -A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed -is as rottenness in his bones. - - _Solomon._ - - * * * * * - -How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle women shall be our -earliest guides—instilling their own spirits. - - _Channing._ - - * * * * * - -Let woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation. - - _Lamb._ - - * * * * * - -The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron are much -more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering -characters, or virago queens. - - _Goldsmith._ - - * * * * * - -A heart which has been domesticated by matrimony and maternity is as -tranquil as a tame bullfinch. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more -audacious. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one -is a jewel, the other a treasure. - - _Napoleon I._ - - * * * * * - -Women especially are to be talked to as below men and above children. - - _Chesterfield._ - - * * * * * - -When joyous, a woman’s licence is not to be endured; when in terror, -she is a plague. - - _Æschylus._ - - * * * * * - -Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to -cure her of it. - - _Lingrés._ - - * * * * * - -When we speed to the devil’s house, woman takes the lead by a thousand -steps. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be -some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times! - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the -most consummate male courtier can do. - - _Thackeray._ - - * * * * * - -Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the -beholder. - - _Zimmerman._ - - * * * * * - -Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection. - - _Schiller._ - - * * * * * - -Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their -weakness. - - _Mme. du Deffand._ - - * * * * * - -Women are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the -merits of a fool. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women have a perpetual envy of our vices; they are less vicious than -we, not from choice, but because we restrict them; they are the slaves -of order and fashion. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral -deficiencies hidden under the “dear deceit” of beauty. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -I detest those women who mount the pulpit and lay their passions bare. - - _Eugenie de Guérin._ - - * * * * * - -Of all men, Adam was the happiest; he had no mother-in-law. - - _Parfait._ - - * * * * * - -Beloved darlings, who cover over and shadow many malicious purposes -with a counterfeit passion of dissimulate sorrow and unquietness. - - _Sir Walter Raleigh._ - - * * * * * - -A mother’s tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart. - - _Eugenie de Guérin._ - - * * * * * - -Lovers have in their language an infinite number of words in which each -syllable is a caress. - - _Rochepedre._ - - * * * * * - -To love is the least of the faults of a loving woman. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of -so short a duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of -conquest. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -There is nothing in love but what we imagine. - - _St Beuve._ - - * * * * * - -I am a strenuous advocate for liberty and property, but when these -rights are invaded by a pretty woman, I am neither able to defend my -money nor my freedom. - - _Junius._ - - * * * * * - -There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are -willing to love. - - _Chamfort._ - - * * * * * - -To educate a man is to form an individual who leaves nothing behind -him; to educate a woman is to form future generations. - - _Laboulaye._ - - * * * * * - -There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess -no attractions. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -It is no more possible to do without a wife than it is to dispense with -eating and drinking. - - _Luther._ - - * * * * * - -God created the coquette as soon as he made the fool. - - _Victor Hugo._ - - * * * * * - -The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded welcome of a wife. - - _Willis._ - - * * * * * - -Trust not a woman, even when dead. - - _Latin Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -I have seen more than one woman drown her honour in the clear water of -diamonds. - - _Comtesse d’Houdetot._ - - * * * * * - -Who trusts himself to woman or to waves should never hazard what he -fears to lose. - - _Oldmixon._ - - * * * * * - -It is vanity that renders the youth of women culpable and their old age -ridiculous. - - _Mme. dé Sonza._ - - * * * * * - -There are three things that women throw away—their time, their money, -and their health. - - _Madame Geoffrin._ - - * * * * * - -The pleasant man a woman will desire for her own sake, but the -languishing lover has nothing to hope from but her pity. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is an overgrown child that one amuses with toys, intoxicates with -flattery, and seduces with promises. - - _Sophie Arnould._ - - * * * * * - -True modesty protects a woman better than her garments. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the sweetest present that God has given to man. - - _Guyard._ - - * * * * * - -Coquetry is the desire to please, without the want of love. - - _Rochepedre._ - - * * * * * - -Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject. - - _De Maintenon._ - - * * * * * - -Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible -and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies. - - _De Varennes._ - - * * * * * - -The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman. - - _Curtis._ - - * * * * * - -Provided a woman be well-principled she has dowry enough. - - _Plautus._ - - * * * * * - -The more women have risked, the more they are willing to sacrifice. - - _Duclos._ - - * * * * * - -A flattered woman is always indulgent. - - _Chenier._ - - * * * * * - -Beauty is the eye’s food and the soul’s sorrow. - - _German Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Some cunning men choose fools for their wives, thinking to manage them, -but they always fail. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects be considered a -tolerable blessing. - - _Washington Irving._ - - * * * * * - -Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman. - - _Bronson Alcott._ - - * * * * * - -Silence has been given to woman to better express her thoughts. - - _Desnoyers._ - - * * * * * - -The society of women endangers men’s morals and refines their manners. - - _Montesquieu._ - - * * * * * - -Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent. - - _Portuguese Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -The virtuous woman who falls in love is much to be pitied. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -A coquette is more occupied with the homage we refuse her than with -what we bestow upon her. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -Women are extremists; they are either better or worse than men. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the crime of man. She has been his victim since Eden. She -wears on her flesh the trace of six thousand years of injustice. - - _Pelletan._ - - * * * * * - -Socrates studied under Aspasia, and Aspasia governed the world under -the name of Pericles. - - _Houssaye._ - - * * * * * - -The one who has read the book that is called woman knows more than the -one who has grown pale in libraries. - - _Houssaye._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the eighth capital sin, but she is perhaps the fourth -theological virtue. - - _Houssaye._ - - * * * * * - -All passions are good when one masters them. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -Consideration for woman is the measure of a nation’s progress in social -life. - - _Gregoire._ - - * * * * * - -There is something of woman in everything that pleases. - - _Dupaty._ - - * * * * * - -No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly -advice to women—not even to his own. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which one can threaten -enemies. - - _Chillon._ - - * * * * * - -I would have a woman as true as death. At the first real lie that works -from the heart outward, she should be tenderly chloroformed into a -better world. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous -woman. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -Nature has given to women fortitude enough to resist a certain time, -but not enough to resist completely the inclination which they cherish. - - _Dorat._ - - * * * * * - -Without woman the two extremes of life would be without succour, and -the middle without pleasure. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -In all eras and all climes a woman of great genius or beauty has done -what she chose. - - _Ouida._ - - * * * * * - -He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they -are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. - - _Bacon._ - - * * * * * - -A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes -her appear. - - _Mdlle. de Lespinasse._ - - * * * * * - -The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more -frequently of her experience. - - _Ninon de l’Enclos._ - - * * * * * - -What a wilful, wayward thing is woman! Even in their best pursuits so -loose of soul that every breath of passion shakes their frame. - - _Francis._ - - * * * * * - -The love of woman is universally for one man. Even though degraded, -half-unsexed, outcast, abandoned to despair, she inflexibly seeks her -individual own. - - _Browne._ - - * * * * * - -Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring -man, often means angel! - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Why should man, who is strong, always get the best of it, and be -forgiven so much; and woman who is weak, get the worst and be forgiven -so little? - - _Mrs W. K. Clifford._ - - * * * * * - -WOMEN. Their love first inspires the poet, and their praise is his best -reward. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women have no worse enemies than women. - - _Duclos._ - - * * * * * - -With what hope can we endeavour to persuade the ladies that the time -spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -A mother’s prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the -throne of all bounty. - - _Beecher._ - - * * * * * - -Venus always saves the lover whom she leads. - - _Delatouche._ - - * * * * * - -A good-tempered woman, of the order yclept buxom, not only warrants a -pair of expansive shoulders, but bespeaks our approbation of them. - - _Leigh Hunt._ - - * * * * * - -Men love at first and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is -natural enough; for nature makes women to be won and men to win. - - _Curtis._ - - * * * * * - -What we call in men _wisdom_ is in women prudence. It is a partiality -to call one greater than the other. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -An undoubted, uncontested, conscious beauty is, of all women, the least -sensible of flattery. - - _Chesterfield._ - - * * * * * - -Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with their eyes. - - _Mme. de Rieux._ - - * * * * * - -Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. - - _Colton._ - - * * * * * - -Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds. - - _German Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always -ready to re-open. - - _De Musset._ - - * * * * * - -The head is always the dupe of the heart. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -O women! you are very extraordinary children. - - _Diderot._ - - * * * * * - -There are different kinds of love, but they have all the same aim: -possession. - - _Roqueplan._ - - * * * * * - -A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from wits. - - _A. Karr._ - - * * * * * - -The great defect in men is that they never put themselves in the place -of the woman they judge. - - _Mme. D’Epinay._ - - * * * * * - -There is not a love, however violent it may be, to which ambition and -interest do not add something. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -A man philosophises better than a woman on the human heart, but she -reads the hearts of men better than he. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -What a woman should demand of a man in courtship, or after it, is, -first, respect for her, as she is a woman; and next to that, to be -respected by him above all other women. - - _Lamb._ - - * * * * * - -A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the -true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of -the world. - - _Hermes._ - - * * * * * - -Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent -to let the celestial origin shine through. - - _Ruffini._ - - * * * * * - -If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a State, we -must ask what rank women hold in it. Their influence embraces the whole -of life. - - _Aimi Martin._ - - * * * * * - -A woman,—where can she put her hope in storms, if not in Heaven? - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s heart is like a lithographer’s stone,—what is once written -upon it cannot be rubbed out. - - _Thackeray._ - - * * * * * - -The lives of a multitude of women all around us contain a large element -of unsuccessful outward or inward ambitions,—vain attempts and prayers. - - _Alger._ - - * * * * * - -An ideal type, in which meekness, gentleness, patience, humility, faith -and love are the most prominent features, is not naturally male, but -female. - - _Lecky._ - - * * * * * - -Even though the wife be little, bow down to her in speaking. - - _Talmud._ - - * * * * * - -The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty till -she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -’Tis a terrible thing that we cannot wish young ladies well without -wishing them to become old women. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -We men have no right to say it, but the omnipotence of Eve is in -humility. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four-and-twenty hours in -a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not -change her mind. - - _De Finod._ - - * * * * * - -There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by -patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft -water penetrates in time. - - _Marguerite de Valois._ - - * * * * * - -The only true and firm friendship is that between man and woman, -because it is the only affection exempt from actual or possible rivalry. - - _A. Comte._ - - * * * * * - -The yoke of love is sometimes heavier than that of all the virtues. - - _Montaigne._ - - * * * * * - -Love is the poetry of the senses. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -Love is the beginning, the middle and the end of everything. - - _Lacordaire._ - - * * * * * - -Women are constantly the dupes, or the victims of their extreme -sensitiveness. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -When a man says he has a wife, it means that a wife has him. - - _Gavarni._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is more constant in hatred than in love. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -A woman dies twice; the day that she quits life and the day that she -ceases to please. - - _Weiss._ - - * * * * * - -Love is the association of two beings for the benefit of one. - - _Countess Nathalie._ - -What a woman wills, God wills. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Some women kindle emotion so rapidly in a man’s heart, that the -judgment cannot keep pace with it. - - _Hardy._ - - * * * * * - -The Bible says that woman is the last thing which God made. He must -have made it on Saturday night. It shows fatigue. - - _Dumas._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s power is for rule, not for battle; and her intellect is not for -invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision. - - _Ruskin._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow and -man the artist. - - _Bayle._ - - * * * * * - -Fit the same intellect to a man, and it is a bowstring; to a woman, and -it is a harpstring. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -A clip of a wife roasts her husband, stouthearted though he may be, -without a fire, and hands him over to premature old age. - - _Hesiod._ - - * * * * * - -There are three things I have always loved and have never -understood—painting, music, and woman. - - _Fontenelle._ - - * * * * * - -Learned women have lost all credit by their impertinent talkativeness -and conceit. - - _Swift._ - - * * * * * - -The coquette compromises her reputation, and sometimes even her virtue; -the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honour in private, and -preserves it in public. - - _Mme. du Boccage._ - - * * * * * - -When a woman has explicitly condemned a given action, she apparently -gathers courage for its commission under a little different conditions. - - _Howells._ - - * * * * * - -The homage of a man may be delightful until he asks straight for love, -by which woman renders homage. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -The Divine Right of Beauty is the only one an Englishman ought to -acknowledge, and a pretty woman is the only tyrant he is not authorised -to resist. - - _Junius._ - - * * * * * - -The beauty of a lovely woman is like music. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, -it is woman. - - _Ward Beecher._ - - * * * * * - -God created woman only to tame man. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -O woman! it is thou that causeth the tempests that agitate mankind. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -The laughter, the tears, and the song of a woman are equally deceptive. - - _Latin Proverb._ - -A woman’s lot is made for her by the love she accepts. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is an idol that man worships until he throws it down. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -She who dresses for others besides her husband, marks herself a wanton. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -With soft persuasive prayers woman wields the sceptre of the life which -she charmeth. - - _Schiller._ - - * * * * * - -Men are the cause of women’s dislike for one another. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -The beautiful woman always gives me joy, and a high mind, too, if I -think what she does for me. - - _Reinmar._ - - * * * * * - -Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman -adds to it her sympathy. - - _Legouvé._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not -done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -The only way to get the upper hand of a woman, is to be more woman than -she is herself. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The devastating egotism of man is properly foreign to woman; though -there are many women as haughty, hard and imperious as any man. - - _Alger._ - - * * * * * - -There are some women who think virtue was given them as claws were -given to cats—to do nothing but scratch with. - - _Jerrold._ - - * * * * * - -An immodest woman is food without salt. - - _Arabian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -The evil in women is usually communicated by men. Much of the deceit of -which they are accused is the effect of masculine inoculation. - - _Browne._ - - * * * * * - -The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her -kindred or to others. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -The friendship of a man is often a support; that of a woman is always a -consolation. - - _Rochepedre._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the blood royal of life; let there be slight degrees of -precedence among them, but let them all be sacred. - - _Burns._ - - * * * * * - -The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself to be so, -even amidst an army of soldiers. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -To form devices quick is woman’s wit. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but -she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. - - _Bovée._ - - * * * * * - -To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman -must resist her own inclinations and the continual attack of man. - - _De Latena._ - - * * * * * - -A cunning woman is a knavish fool. - - _Lyttleton._ - - * * * * * - -A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the -love. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -Even the satyrs, like men, in one way or another, could win the love of -a woman. - - _Malcolm Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -You wish to create Eve over again, or rather to call forth a female -Adam. I object. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -Let a man pray that none of his woman-kind should form a just -estimation of him. - - _Thackeray._ - - * * * * * - -In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -The man who seems to care little whether he charms or attracts women is -he who offends and seduces. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -To correct the faults of man, we address the head; to correct those of -woman, we address the heart. - - _De Beauchêne._ - - * * * * * - -The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work -softly with a cloth. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant mourning of happiness. - - _Mme. de Stael._ - - * * * * * - -Women have more of what is termed good sense than men. They cannot -reason wrong, for they do not reason at all. - - _Hazlitt._ - - * * * * * - -In anger against a rival, all women, even duchesses, employ invective. -Then they make use of everything as a weapon. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -What is civilisation? I answer, the power of good women. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never. - - _Beauchêne._ - - * * * * * - -The egotism of woman is always for two. - - _Mme. de Stael._ - - * * * * * - -The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, -but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been -shipwrecked. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -Where women are, are all kinds of mischief. - - _Menander._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the symbol of moral and physical beauty. - - _Gautier._ - - * * * * * - -No man knows what the wife of his bosom is—no man knows what a -ministering angel she is—until he has gone with her through the fiery -trials of this world. - - _Washington Irving._ - - * * * * * - -Women have, in general, but one object, which is their beauty; upon -which scarce any flattery is too gross for them. - - _Chesterfield._ - - * * * * * - -If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would -have been changed. - - _Pascal._ - - * * * * * - -A worthless girl has enslaved me,—me, whom no enemy ever did. - - _Epictetus._ - - * * * * * - -An indigent female, the object probably of love and tenderness in her -youth, at a more advanced age a withered flower, has nothing to do but -retire and die. - - _Hall._ - - * * * * * - -In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, there is but a kiss. - - _Alberic Second._ - - * * * * * - -The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved. - - _Rochebrune._ - - * * * * * - -A beautiful woman is the paradise of the eyes, the hell of the soul, -and the purgatory of the purse. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of -a woman; it never wears out. - - _Alsatian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -One is always a woman’s first lover. - - _De Laclos._ - - * * * * * - -A man must be a fool who does not succeed in making a woman believe -that which flatters her. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -I have seen faces of women that were fair to look upon, yet one could -see that the icicles were forming round these women’s hearts. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -The highest mark of esteem a woman can give a man is to ask his -friendship, and the most signal proof of her indifference is to offer -him hers. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The fire of woman’s passion, consuming the wilderness of her -limitation, rises to the pure flame that has blazed on every altar of -Eros between the Nile and the Columbia. - - _Browne._ - - * * * * * - -Frailty! thy name is woman. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -The tears of a young widow lose their bitterness when wiped by the -hands of love. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -She could not reconcile the anxieties of spiritual life, involving -eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial -protrusions of drapery. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -Venus herself, if she were bald, would not be Venus. - - _Apuleius._ - - * * * * * - -Women often deceive to conceal what they feel; men to simulate what -they do not feel—love. - - _Legouvé._ - - * * * * * - -Women are the happiest beings of the creation; in compensation for our -services, they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more -than half. - - _De Varennes._ - - * * * * * - -No woman is too silly not to have a genius for spite. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief -relation of her life has been a mistake. She has lost her crown. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -There are plenty of women who believe women to be incapable of anything -but to cook, incapable of interest in affairs. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is happy and attains all that she desires when she captivates -a man; hence the great object of her life is to master the art of -captivating men. - - _Tolstoi._ - - * * * * * - -The secret of youthful looks in an aged face is easy shoes, easy -corsets and an easy conscience. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Who does not know the bent of woman’s fancy? - - _Spenser._ - - * * * * * - -Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. - - _De Souderi._ - - * * * * * - -Every great passion is but a prolonged hope. - - _Feuchères._ - - * * * * * - -Beauty in woman is power. - - _De Rotrou._ - - * * * * * - -We are by no means aware how much we are influenced by our passions. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. - - _Gautier._ - - * * * * * - -Glances are the first _billets-doux_ of love. - - _De L’Enclos._ - - * * * * * - -Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is -lost in them, the other hidden. - - _Petit-Senn._ - - * * * * * - -Where pride begins, love ends. - - _Lavater._ - - * * * * * - -The girl who wakes the poet’s sigh is a very different creature from -the girl who makes his soup. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -Women know a point more than the devil. - - _Italian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex. - - _Lytton._ - - * * * * * - -Did you ever hear of a man’s growing lean by the reading of “Romeo and -Juliet,” or blowing his brains out because Desdemona was maligned? - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice. - - _Leigh Hunt._ - - * * * * * - -The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the -leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -In our age women commonly preserve the publication of their good -offices and their vehement affection toward their husbands until they -have lost them. - - _Montaigne._ - - * * * * * - -When women cannot be revenged, they do as children do—they then cry. - - _Cardan._ - - * * * * * - -At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women; he is more in -love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be. - - _La Bretonne._ - - * * * * * - -The man who has taken one wife deserves a crown of patience; the man -who has taken two deserves two crowns of pity. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -The knowledge of the charms one possesses prompts one to utilise them. - - _Sénancourt._ - - * * * * * - -There is no more agreeable companion than the one woman who loves us. - - _St Pierre._ - - * * * * * - -Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of the -angels. - - _Boufflers._ - - * * * * * - -Men bestow compliments only on women who deserve none. - - _Bachi._ - - * * * * * - -Two smiles that approach each other end in a kiss. - - _Hugo._ - - * * * * * - -There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which -beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity. - - _Washington Irving._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided -she is preferred. It is so many more triumphs for her. - - _Ninon de L’Enclos._ - -There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. - - _Lamartine._ - - * * * * * - -Women prefer us to say a little evil of them, rather than to say -nothing of them at all. - - _Ricard._ - - * * * * * - -One syllable of woman’s speech can dissolve more of love than a man’s -heart can hold. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women, deceived by men, want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge, as -good as any other. - - _Beaumanoir._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is seldom tenderer to a man than immediately after she has -deceived him. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game -abounds. - - _De Latena._ - - * * * * * - -Fortune rules in nuptials; women are as like to turn out badly as to -prove a source of joy. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret. - - _Chevalier._ - - * * * * * - -Man without woman is head without body; woman without man is body -without head. - - _German Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill-nature. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -I am sure I do not mean it an injury to women when I say there is a -sort of sex in souls. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -A woman, when she has passed forty becomes an illegible scrawl; only an -old woman is capable of divining old women. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -A beautiful woman is never silly; she has the best wit that a man may -ask of a woman, she is pretty. - - _Stahl._ - - * * * * * - -All the reasons of men are not worth one sentiment of woman. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -A man never knows how to live until a woman has lived with him. - - _Mere._ - - * * * * * - -It may not be impossible to find a constant heart in an unfaithful body. - - _Stahl._ - - * * * * * - -Women may be pardoned for lack of common sense. The culprit in them is -the heart. - - _Stahl._ - - * * * * * - -The history of love would be the history of humanity; it would be a -beautiful book to write. - - _Nodier._ - - * * * * * - -Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can -always be said. - - _Saint Prosper._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is frank when she is not uselessly untruthful. - - _France._ - - * * * * * - -Jealousy for a woman is only a wound to self-respect. In man it is a -torture profound as moral suffering, continuous as physical suffering. - - _France._ - - * * * * * - -Love preserves beauty, and the flesh of woman is fed with caresses as -are bees with flowers. - - _France._ - - * * * * * - -Every lover who tries to find in love anything else than love is not a -lover. - - _Bourget._ - - * * * * * - -One must be sensual to be human. - - _France._ - -When a lover gives, he demands—and much more than he has given. - - _Parry._ - - * * * * * - -In most men there is a dead poet whom the man survives. - - _St Beuve._ - - * * * * * - -The Egyptian people, wisest then of nations, gave to their Spirit -of Wisdom the form of a woman; and into her hand, for a symbol, the -weaver’s shuttle. - - _Ruskin._ - - * * * * * - -The life of a woman can be divided into three epochs; in the first she -dreams of love, in the second she experiences it, in the third she -regrets it. - - _Saint Prosper._ - - * * * * * - -The ruses of women multiply with their years. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Women wish to be loved, not because they are pretty or good or -well-bred or graceful or intelligent, but because they are themselves. - - _Amiel._ - - * * * * * - -Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect -thing in nature. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses -herself and what she has of heart and happiness in the object she loves. - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -Society is the book of women. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -Women, like princes, find few real friends. - - _Lyttleton._ - - * * * * * - -In love affairs, a young shepherdess is a better partner than an old -queen. - - _De Finod._ - - * * * * * - -To “Get out of my house,” and “What do you want with my wife?” there -is no answer. - - _Don Quixote._ - - * * * * * - -Our ice-eyed brain women are really admirable if we only ask of them -just what they can give, and no more. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise that can be negotiated at -wholesale only on condition that no one takes a part at retail. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is a flower that exhales her perfume only in the shade. - - _De Lamennais._ - - * * * * * - -An honest woman is the one we fear to compromise. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more -careless about her home. - - _Ben Jonson._ - - * * * * * - -Heaven has refused genius to woman, in order to concentrate all the -fire in her heart. - - _Rivarol._ - - * * * * * - -The two pleasantest days of a woman are her marriage day and the day of -her funeral. - - _Hipponax._ - - * * * * * - -A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, -and decreases the number of women. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -A lady’s wish—he said, with a certain gallantry of manner—makes -slaves of us all. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -In nineteen cases out of twenty, for a woman to play her heart in the -game of love is to play at cards with a sharper, and gold coin against -counterfeit pieces. - - _Bourget._ - - * * * * * - -Women are at ease in perfidy, as are serpents in bushes. - - _Feuillet._ - - * * * * * - -Women see without looking; their husbands often look without seeing. - - _Desnoyers._ - - * * * * * - -Most women who ride well on horseback have little tenderness. Like the -Amazons, they lack a breast. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Earth has nothing more tender than a woman’s heart when it is the abode -of pity. - - _Luther._ - - * * * * * - -In wishing to control her empire, woman destroys it. - - _Canabis._ - - * * * * * - -Wherever women are honoured, the gods are satisfied. - - _Laws of Manu._ - - * * * * * - -To a woman, the romances she makes are more amusing than those she -reads. - - _Gautier._ - - * * * * * - -Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more with -them. - - _Sophie Arnould._ - - * * * * * - -Sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the -hope and affection of human nature. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -All the reasoning of man is not worth one sentiment of woman. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -When an old crone frolics, she flirts with death. - - _Syrus._ - - * * * * * - -There never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. - - _Plautus._ - - * * * * * - -Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old -men’s nurses. - - _Bacon._ - - * * * * * - -Tenderness has no deeper source than the heart of a woman, devotion no -purer shrine, sacrifice no more saint-like abnegation. - - _Saint-Foix._ - - * * * * * - -It is difficult for a woman to keep a secret; and I know more than one -man who is a woman. - - _Lafontaine._ - - * * * * * - -All the evil that women have done to us comes from us, and all the good -they have done to us comes from them. - - _Aimi Martin._ - - * * * * * - -Have a useful and good wife in the house, or don’t marry at all. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women -that are unlovable. - - _Houelle._ - - * * * * * - -None can do a woman worse despite than to call her old. - - _Ariosto._ - - * * * * * - -He who flatters women most pleases them best, and they are most in love -with him whom they think is most in love with them. - - _Chesterfield._ - - * * * * * - -Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof of her past virtue. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Imperious Venus is less potent than caressing Venus. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The clown knows very well that the women are not in love with him, but -with Hamlet, the fellow in the black cloak and plumed hat. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -Women, asses, and nuts require strong hands. - - _Italian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Woman sends forth her sympathies on adventure. She embarks her whole -soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is -hopeless. - - _Washington Irving._ - * * * * * - -A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical -and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her. - - _Amiel._ - - * * * * * - -What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A -beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the -absurdities but wise thoughts. - - _Tolstoi._ - - * * * * * - -A woman cannot guarantee her heart, even though her husband be the -greatest and most perfect of men. - - _George Sand._ - - * * * * * - -It is born in maidens that they should wish to please everything that -has eyes. - - _Gleim._ - - * * * * * - -The woman who throws herself at a man’s head will soon find her place -at his feet. - - _Desnoyers._ - - * * * * * - -Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants -great. - - _Proverb._ - * * * * * - -I confess I like the quality ladies better than the common kind even of -literary ones. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women sometimes deceive the lover—never the friend. - - _Mercier._ - - * * * * * - -You see in no place of conversation the perfection of speech so much as -in accomplished women. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -A fan is indispensable to a woman who can no longer blush. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -When a wrong idea possesses a woman, much bitterness flows from her -tongue. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage communicates to women the vices of men, but never their -virtues. - - _Fourier._ - * * * * * - -In love, the confidant of a woman’s sorrow often becomes the consoler -of it. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -A royal court without women is like a year without spring, a spring -without flowers. - - _Francis I. of France._ - - * * * * * - -A woman full of faith in the one she loves is but a novelist’s fancy. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -O Pygmalion, who can wonder (no artist surely) that thou didst fall in -love with the work of thine own hands. - - _Leigh Hunt._ - - * * * * * - -The mistakes of a woman result almost always from her faith in the good -and her confidence in the truth. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -Let an action be never so trivial in itself, women always make it -appear of the most importance. - - _Pope._ - * * * * * - -There are only two beautiful things in the world—women and roses; and -only two sweet things—women and melons. - - _Malherbe._ - - * * * * * - -Before promising a woman to love only her, one should have seen them -all, or should see only her. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -Many young girls have a strange audacity blended with their instinctive -delicacy. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its -name. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -Women are formed by nature to feel some consolation in present -troubles, by having them always in their mouth and on their tongue. - - _Euripides._ - * * * * * - -Women give entirely to their affections, set their whole fortunes on -the die, lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and -children. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -We ask four things for a woman—that virtue dwell in her heart, modesty -in her forehead, sweetness in her mouth, and labour in her hands. - - _Chinese Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -In all ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman’s than the -man’s, as the choice depended on her the least. - - _Mme. de Rieux._ - - * * * * * - -Love lessens the woman’s refinement and strengthens the man’s. - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he -holds nothing. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl’s virtue. - - _Mme. de Genlis._ - - * * * * * - -In condemning the vanity of women, men complain of the fire they -themselves have kindled. - - _Lingrée._ - - * * * * * - -A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers. - - _Raisson._ - - * * * * * - -Women always speak the truth, but not the whole truth. - - _Italian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -If all women’s faces were cast in the same mould, that mould would be -the grave of love. - - _Bichat._ - - * * * * * - -What colour would it not have given to my thoughts, and what -thrice-washed whiteness to my words, had I been fed on woman’s praises. - - _Holmes._ - * * * * * - -One may see the heart of women through the rents which one may make in -their self-love. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women and music should never be dated. - - _Goldsmith._ - - - * * * * * - -Men never are consoled for their first love, nor women for their last. - - _Weiss._ - - * * * * * - -A timorous woman often drops into her grave before she is done -deliberating. - - _Addison._ - - * * * * * - -It is much worse to irritate an old woman than a dog. - - _Menander._ - - * * * * * - -There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less -than an angel will suit them; hence it comes that they often meet with -devils. - - _Marguerite de Valois._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is a charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as her -gloves. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in -friendship than women. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s function is a guiding, not a determining one. - - _Ruskin._ - - * * * * * - -At first woman fosters our dearest hopes with the affection of a -mother; then, like a giddy hen she forsakes the nest. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -A girl of sixteen accepts love; a woman of thirty incites it. - - _Ricard._ - - * * * * * - -A woman who loves, however erring, can never be entirely selfish, -for love has a humanising influence, and a true passion renders any -self-sacrifice easy. - - _Peabody._ - - * * * * * - -A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral -sense. - - _De La Bretonne._ - - * * * * * - -Women’s hearts are made of stout leather; there’s a plaguey sight of -wear in them. - - _Haliburton._ - - * * * * * - -A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at -night when he is afraid. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -Woman among savages is a beast of burden; in Asia she is a piece of -furniture; in Europe she is a spoiled child. - - _De Meilhan._ - - * * * * * - -Women that are least bashful are not infrequently the most modest. - - _Colton._ - - * * * * * - -True feeling is a rustic vulgarity the flirt does not tolerate; she -counts its healthiest and most honest manifestation all sentiment. - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -Shakespeare has no heroes, he has only heroines. - - _Ruskin._ - - * * * * * - -Some men are different; all women are alike. - - _Delvau._ - - * * * * * - -The empire of woman is an empire of sweetness, skilfulness and -attractiveness; her orders are caresses, her evils are tears. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -Women need not be beautiful every day of their lives; it is sufficient -that they have moments which one does not forget, and the return of -which one expects. - - _Cherbuliez._ - - * * * * * - -There are some lips from which even the proudest women love to hear the -censure which appears to disprove indifference. - - _Lytton._ - - * * * * * - -It is in the nature of the feminine sex to seek here below to corrupt -men, and therefore wise men never abandon themselves to the seductions -of women. - - _Laws of Manu._ - - * * * * * - -Would that the race of women had never existed—except for me alone! - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -Fools that on women trust; for in their speech is death, hell in their -smile. - - _Tasso._ - - * * * * * - -At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen is to imitate -those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. - - _Ricard._ - - * * * * * - -Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. - - _Haliburton._ - - * * * * * - -The virtue of women is often the love of reputation and quiet. - - _Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature’s casket for the -ornamentation and happiness of man. - - _Guyard._ - - * * * * * - -Women have such a wonderful power of secreting adjectives that they -cannot speak the truth when they try. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -Women divine that they are loved long before it is told them. - - _Marivaux._ - - * * * * * - -The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain, in woman by the -heart; it is there that they are most sensitive. - - _Bayle._ - - * * * * * - -There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as -there is one on the earth. - - _De Boufflers._ - - * * * * * - -The virtue of widows is a laborious virtue; they have to combat -constantly with the remembrance of past bliss. - - _Jerome._ - - * * * * * - -A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of -equal capacity. - - _Lavater._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s natural mission is to love, to love but one, to love always. - - _Michelet._ - - * * * * * - -One reason why women are forbidden to preach the gospel is that they -would persuade without argument and reprove without giving offence. - - _John Newton._ - - * * * * * - -How little do lovely women know what awful beings they are in the eyes -of inexperienced youth. - - _Washington Irving._ - - * * * * * - -During their youth women wish to be treated as divinities; they adore -the ideal; they cannot bear the idea of being what Nature wishes them -to be. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Love is a bird that sings in the heart of a woman. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s happiness is in obeying. She objects to men who abdicate too -much. - - _Michelet._ - - * * * * * - -Nature sent woman into the world with the bridal dower of love. - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -The moral amelioration of man constitutes the chief mission of women. - - _Comte._ - - * * * * * - -Most ladies who have had what is considered as an education, have no -idea of an education progressive through life. - - _Foster._ - - * * * * * - -One of the principal occupations of men is to divine women. - - _Lacretelle._ - - * * * * * - -Men do not always love those they esteem; women, on the contrary, -esteem only those they love. - - _Dubay._ - - * * * * * - -I will not affirm that women have no character; rather, they have a new -one every day. - - _Heine._ - - * * * * * - -The only person who can cure one of a woman is that woman herself. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Virtue is a beautiful thing in women when they don’t go about with it -like a child with a drum, making all sorts of noise with it. - - _Jerrold._ - - * * * * * - -Wiles and deceits are woman’s specialities. - - _Æschylus._ - - * * * * * - -What man seeks in love is woman; what woman seeks in love is man. - - _Houssaye._ - - * * * * * - -There is no grace that is taught by the dancing-master, no style -adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and mere -action of some brilliant woman. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in -packing china; it is nothing, yet without it, everything would be -broken. - - _Mme. de Salm._ - - * * * * * - -The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at -once by holding out no hope to her suitor. - - _Marguerite de Valois._ - - * * * * * - -One single honest man may yet be seen; but wander all the world round -to find one honest woman, he will search in vain. - - _Wieland._ - - * * * * * - -A woman forgives the audacity which her beauty has prompted us to be -guilty of. - - _Lesage._ - - * * * * * - -To marry a wife, if we regard the truth, is an evil, but it is a -necessary evil. - - _Menander._ - - * * * * * - -Nothing is more difficult to choose than a good husband—unless it be -to choose a good wife. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -The rudest man, inspired by love, is more persuasive than the most -eloquent man, if uninspired. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret. - - _Gavarni._ - - * * * * * - -Constancy is the chimera of love. - - _Vauvenargues._ - - * * * * * - -The pretension of youth always gives to a woman a few more years than -she really has. - - _Jouy._ - - * * * * * - -I have only one advice to give you—fall in love with all women. - - _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._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -I have always said it: Nature meant to make woman its masterpiece. - - _Lessing._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the organ of the devil. - - _De Varennes._ - - * * * * * - -Women are a breed the like of which neither sea nor earth produces -anything; he who is always with them knows them best. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in -their arms. - - _De Finod._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage has its unknown great men as war has its Napoleons, poetry its -Cheniers, and philosophy its Descartes. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -Vanity ruins more women than love. - - _Du Deffand._ - - * * * * * - -Extremes in everything is a characteristic of woman. - - _De Goncourt._ - - * * * * * - -One loves more the first time, better the second. - - _Rochepedre._ - - * * * * * - -Of all religions love is the most deceptive. - - _Paleologue._ - - * * * * * - -The Indian axiom “Do not strike even with a flower a woman guilty of a -hundred crimes” is my rule of conduct. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -To be loved as in books is a dream. - - _Bourget._ - - * * * * * - -The cruellest revenge of a woman is often to remain faithful to a man. - - _Bossuet._ - - * * * * * - -Women, cats and birds are the creatures that waste most time on their -toilets. - - _Nodier._ - - * * * * * - -Female goodness seldom keeps its ground against laughter, flattery, or -fashion. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -I received money with her, and for the dowry have sold my authority. - - _Plautus._ - - * * * * * - -There is no torture that a woman would not suffer to enhance her beauty. - - _Montaigne._ - - * * * * * - -Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and jumps. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every-day -moments of existence. - - _Leigh Hunt._ - - * * * * * - -Learn, above all, how to manage women; their thousand “Ahs” and “Ohs,” -so thousand fold, can be cured. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine bodies, and of souls that -have fine eyes. - - _Joubert._ - - * * * * * - -When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when -they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our -virtues. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -She who spat in my face while I was, shall come to kiss my feet when I -am no more. - - _Montaigne._ - - * * * * * - -Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an -opportunity of being generous. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -I am glad I am not a man, as I should be obliged to marry a woman. - - _Mme. de Stael._ - - * * * * * - -There would be no such animals as prudes or coquettes in the world were -there not such an animal as man. - - _Addison._ - - * * * * * - -Women have tongues of craft and hearts of guile. - - _Tasso._ - - * * * * * - -A coquette has no heart; she has only vanity; it is adorers she seeks, -not love. - - _Poincelot._ - - * * * * * - -The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and -bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it. - - _Lemontey._ - - * * * * * - -The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses -please less than red. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion, but when -something most dear to her is in immediate danger. - - _Baillie._ - - * * * * * - -A man can keep another person’s secret better than his own; a woman, on -the contrary, keeps her secret though she tells all others. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -Men speak of what they know; women, of what pleases them. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women. - - _Latin Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous, of the passions; -it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of -someone else. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -VIRTUE: a word easy to pronounce, difficult to understand. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster that -devours everything—habit. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -It is easy to find a lover and to retain a friend; what is difficult is -to find the friend and retain the lover. - - _Levis._ - - * * * * * - -It’s better to love to-day than to-morrow. A pleasure postponed is a -pleasure lost. - - _Ricard._ - - * * * * * - -Woman conceals only what she does not know. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Love, pleasure, and inconstancy are but the consequences of a desire to -know the truth. - - _Duclos._ - - * * * * * - -A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she -has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty. - - _Addison._ - - * * * * * - -The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written -on air or on the swiftly running stream. - - _Catullus._ - - * * * * * - -When a _lady_ walks the streets, she leaves her virtuous indignation -countenance at home. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -The humour of affecting a superior carriage generally rises from a -false notion of the weakness of the female understanding in general. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the -person on whom she depends. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -A woman submits to the yoke of opinion, but a man rebels. - - _De Finod._ - - * * * * * - -The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear -becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. - - _Diderot._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is like the reed that bends to every breeze, but breaks not in -the tempest. - - _Whately._ - - * * * * * - -Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they -feel; men are just the contrary. - - _De Beauchêne._ - - * * * * * - -To a susceptible youth, like myself, brought up in the country, women -are perfect divinities. - - _Washington Irving._ - - * * * * * - -Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes -injure them as much as faults. - - _Girard._ - - * * * * * - -Excess of passion and the force of love,—arguments than which there -can be none more powerful to assuage the irritation of a woman’s mind. - - _Titus Livius._ - - * * * * * - -The reason why so few women are touched by friendship is that they find -it dull when they have experienced love. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. - - _Bronson Alcott._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is a well-served table that one sees with different eyes before -and after the meal. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The materials that go to the making of one woman were set free by the -abstraction from inanimate nature of one man’s worth of masculine -constituents. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women are wise impromptu, fools on reflection. - - _Italian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -To say the truth, I never yet knew a tolerable woman to be fond of her -own sex. - - _Swift._ - - * * * * * - -“I like women,” said a clear-headed man of the world, “they are so -finished.” They finish society, manners, language. Form and ceremony -are their realm. They embellish trifles. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -An opinion formed by a woman is inflexible; the fact is not half so -stubborn. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -There is one thing admirable in women; they never reason about their -blameworthy actions; even in their dissimulation there is an element of -sincerity. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -A mother dreads no memories,—those shadows have all melted away in the -dawn of Baby’s smiles. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou canst, be virtuous if thou -wilt; but considerate thou must be. - - _Beaumarchais._ - - * * * * * - -A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. - - _Syrus._ - - * * * * * - -The error of certain women is to imagine that, to acquire distinction, -they must imitate the manners of men. - - _De Maistre._ - - * * * * * - -Women’s virtue is the music of stringed instruments, which sound best -in a room. - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -With women, the desire to bedeck themselves is always the desire to -please. - - _Marmontel._ - - * * * * * - -In life, as in a promenade, woman must lean on a man above her. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -The revolution the Boston boys started had to run in mother’s milk -before it ran in man’s blood. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by -drop the truth that is bitter. - - _Diderot._ - - * * * * * - -A shameless woman is the worst of men. - - _Young._ - - * * * * * - -There has been no church, however superstitious, that has not been -adorned by many Christian women devoting their entire lives to -assuaging the sufferings of men. - - _Lecky._ - - * * * * * - -I dare say she’s like the rest of the women,—thinks two and two’ll -come to make five, if she cries and bothers enough about it. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -We need the friendship of a man in great trials, of a woman in the -affairs of everyday life. - - _Thomas._ - - * * * * * - -How can one who hates men love a woman without blushing? - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -Some women need much adorning, as some meat needs much seasoning to -incite appetite. - - _Rochebrune._ - - * * * * * - -’Tis beauty that doth make woman proud; - . . . . . . . . . -’Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; - . . . . . . . . . -’Tis government that makes them seem divine. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -Women like audacity; when one astounds them, he interests them; and -when one interests them, he is very sure to please them. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women should despise slander, and fear to provoke it. - - _Mdlle. de Scuderi._ - - * * * * * - -Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what -gives her the least pleasure. - - _Prince de Ligne._ - - * * * * * - -It is not always for virtue’s sake that women are virtuous. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -The society of women is the element of good manners. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the Sunday of man. - - _Michelet._ - - * * * * * - -If a woman has any malicious mischief to do, her memory is immortal. - - _Plautus._ - - * * * * * - -When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their -age; when they have attained the age of forty, they have entirely lost -the remembrance of it. - - _De Lenclos._ - - * * * * * - -Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover. - - _De Lamennais._ - - * * * * * - -It has been justly observed that heroines are best painted in general -terms. - - _Leigh Hunt._ - - * * * * * - -Love is superior to genius. - - _De Musset._ - - * * * * * - -Time sooner or later vanquishes love; friendship alone subdues time. - - _D’Arconville._ - - * * * * * - -A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect -thing in nature; we find in her all the merits of both sexes. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves. - - _Rochepedre._ - - * * * * * - -All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -A short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it. - - _Mirabeau._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage often unites for life two people who scarcely know each other. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -If a woman refrains from absurd or hateful words and acts, and if she -is beautiful, we are straightway convinced that she is a paragon of -wisdom and morality. - - _Tolstoi._ - - * * * * * - -If we men require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is -doing them honour. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -How many women since the days of Echo and Narcissus have pined -themselves into air for the love of men who were in love only with -themselves. - - _Anna Jameson._ - - * * * * * - -The castle that parleys and the woman who listens are ready to -surrender. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Strange that the Gods should have given an antidote against the venom -of savage serpents and none against that of a bad woman. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -Women dress less to be clothed than to be adorned. When alone before -their mirror they think more of men than of themselves. - - _Rochebrune._ - - * * * * * - -The woman we love most is often the woman to whom we express it the -least. - - _De Beauchêne._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s counsel is not worth much, yet he that despises it is no wiser -than he should be. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the nervous part of humanity; man the muscular. - - _Halle._ - - * * * * * - -O woman, woman! thou art formed to bless the heart of restless man. - - _Bird._ - - * * * * * - -Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness and saved by their -coquetry. - - _Mdlle. Azais._ - - * * * * * - -Women are compounds of plain-sewing and make-believe—daughters of Sham -and Hem. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -Finesse has been given to woman to compensate the force of man. - - _De Laclos._ - - * * * * * - -Women are demons who make us enter hell through the gates of paradise. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -It is to teach us early how to think and how to excite our infantile -imagination, that prudent nature has given to women so much chit-chat. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -Oh, woman! woman! thou shouldst have a few sins of thy own to answer -for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in man! - - _Lytton._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s dignity lies in her being unknown; her glory in the esteem of -her husband; and her pleasure in the welfare of her family. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -Men _say_ of women what pleases them; women _do_ with men what pleases -them. - - _Ségur._ - - * * * * * - -Woman must not belong to herself; she is bound to alien destinies. - - _Schiller._ - - * * * * * - -Don’t trust your horse in the field, nor your wife in your home. - - _Russian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Woman has been fed upon flattery until it is not strange she -hungers for substantial diet, whose best sauce is understanding and -appreciation. - - _Browne._ - - * * * * * - -One thing only I believe in a woman—that she will not come to life -again after she is dead. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candour, beauty, -freshness, virginity, modesty,—a woman has each of these but once. - - _La Bretonne._ - - * * * * * - -Men call physicians only when they suffer; women when they are only -afflicted with _ennui_. - - _Mme. de Genlis._ - - * * * * * - -Men say more evil of a woman than they think; it is the contrary with -women toward men. - - _Dubay._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s rank lies in the fulness of her womanhood; therein alone she -is royal. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -The deceit of priests and the cunning of women surpass all else. - - _Burger._ - - * * * * * - -Nothing is better than a good wife; and nothing is worse than a bad -one, who is fond of gadding about. - - _Hesiod._ - - * * * * * - -Woman often dies for love, as spotless maidens have died to live -forever in the pantheon of sentiment. - - _Browne._ - - * * * * * - -Love, that is but an episode in the life of man, is the entire story of -the life of woman. - - _Mme. de Stael._ - - * * * * * - -Women, priests, and poultry have never enough. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is too soft to hate permanently; even if a hundred men have been -a grief to her, she will still love the hundred and first. - - _Kinkel._ - - * * * * * - -Intellect is to a woman’s nature what her skirt is to her dress. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Without woman man would be rough, rude, solitary, and would ignore all -the graces, which are but the smiles of love. - - _Chateaubriand._ - - * * * * * - -No woman who is absolutely and entirely good, in the ordinary sense of -the word, gets a man’s most fervent, passionate love. - - _Mrs W. K. Clifford._ - - * * * * * - -It is a misfortune for a woman never to be loved, but it is a -humiliation to be loved no more. - - _Montesquieu._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. - - _Amiel._ - - * * * * * - -An old coquette has all the defects of a young one, and none of her -charms. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -Women, like the plants in the woods, derive their softness and -tenderness from the shade. - - _Landor._ - - * * * * * - -One should choose a wife with the ears rather than with the eyes. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -From many a woman’s fortune this truth is clear as day; that falsely -smiling pleasure with pain requites us ever. - - _Nibelungenlied._ - - * * * * * - -Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the -speech they know to be useless,—nay, the speech they have resolved not -to utter. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore choose -the weakest and most ignorant. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s sensibility lights up, and quivers and falls, like the flame of -a coal fire. - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -The weakness of women gives to some men a victory that their merit -would never gain. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more. - - _Le Mesle._ - - * * * * * - -The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry. - - _Jouy._ - - * * * * * - -Women can rarely be deceived, for they are accustomed to deceive. - - _Aristophanes._ - - * * * * * - -There are no pleasures where women are not. - - _Marie De Romieu._ - - * * * * * - -Women’s tender hearts are much more susceptible of good impressions -than the minds of the other sex. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -Coquettes are like hunters who are fond of hunting, but do not eat the -game. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage with a good woman is a harbour in the tempest; but with a bad -woman, it proves a tempest in the harbour. - - _Petit-Senn._ - - * * * * * - -A man without religion is to be pitied, but a godless woman is a horror -above all things. - - _Elizabeth Evans._ - - * * * * * - -Cruelly tempted, perplexed and bewildered, when passion is stronger -than reason, women do not think of consequences, but go blindfolded, -headlong to their ruin. - - _Amelia E. Barr._ - - * * * * * - -Vanity acts like a woman,—they both think they lose something when -love or praise is accorded to another. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -One woman reads another’s character without the tedious trouble of -deciphering. - - _Ben Jonson._ - - * * * * * - -Women are much more like each other than men; they have, in truth, but -two passions,—vanity and love. - - _Chesterfield._ - - * * * * * - -A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile, often frightens away a -prude. - - _De Latena._ - - * * * * * - -If the loving closed heart of a good woman were to open before a man, -how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb -virtues would he see! - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -There are twenty-four hours in a day, and not a moment in the -twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. - - _De Finod._ - - * * * * * - -Most women are better out of their houses than in them. - - _Tacitus._ - - * * * * * - -How many women are born too finely organised in sense and soul for the -highway; they must walk with feet unshod! - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women are rakes by nature and prudes by necessity. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -What means did the devil find out, or what instrument did his own -subtlety present him, as fittest and aptest to work his mischief by? -Even the unquiet vanity of the woman. - - _Sir Walter Raleigh._ - - * * * * * - -An obscure mist of sighs exhales out of the solitude of women in the -nineteenth century. - - _Alger._ - - * * * * * - -If a woman’s young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all -the better for her being plainly dressed. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner than when -his wife talks Greek. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -A young girl betrays, in a moment, that her eyes have been feeding on -the face where you find them fixed. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in. - - _Addison._ - - * * * * * - -The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a -celestial being, whose defects disappear under the prism through which -we see her. - - _Girardin._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s love, like lichens on a rock, will still grow where even -charity can find no soil to nurture itself. - - _Bovée._ - - * * * * * - -If a fox is cunning, a woman in love is still more so. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by -patience and love. - - _Marguerite de Valois._ - - * * * * * - -A woman indeed ventures most, for she hath no sanctuary to retire to -from an evil husband. - - _Jeremy Taylor._ - - * * * * * - -Better to have never loved, than to have loved unhappily, or to have -_half_ loved. - - _Louise Colet._ - - * * * * * - -Love makes time pass, and time makes love pass. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Love is the passion of great souls; it makes them merit glory, when it -does not turn their heads. - - _De Pompadour._ - - * * * * * - -Nothing is so embarrassing as the first _tête-à-tête_, when there is -everything to say, unless it be the last, when everything has been said. - - _Roqueplan._ - - * * * * * - -All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious; pleasures -of love do not make us laugh. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -The beautiful is always severe. - - _Ségur._ - - * * * * * - -Love! Love! Eternal enigma! Will not the Sphinx that guards thee find -an Ædipus to explain thee? - - _Pyat._ - - * * * * * - -Friendship between two women is always a plot against each other. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -Divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -The ever-womanly draws us above. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women. - - _Queen Christina._ - - * * * * * - -Flow, wine! smile, women! and the universe is consoled. - - _Beranger._ - - * * * * * - -Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence, because they have -less trouble to speak well than to speak little. - - _Du Bose._ - - * * * * * - -There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she -will be wise. - - _Luther._ - - * * * * * - -Women live only in the emotion that love gives. - - _Houssaye._ - - * * * * * - -On great occasions it is almost always women who have given the -strongest proofs of virtue and devotion. - - _Montholon._ - - * * * * * - -God bless all good women! To their soft hands and pitying hearts we -must all come at last. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Neither education nor reason gives women much security against the -influence of example. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -The hell for women who are only handsome is old age. - - _Saint-Evremond._ - - * * * * * - -Men are women’s playthings, women are the devil’s. - - _Victor Hugo._ - - * * * * * - -A woman, if she is bent on ill, never goes begging to the gardener for -material; she has a garden at home. - - _Plautus._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always -a sublime thing. - - _Dumas._ - - * * * * * - -There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to -look pretty. - - _Berryer._ - - * * * * * - -It is not for good women that men have fought battles, given their -lives, and staked their souls. - - _Mrs W. K. Clifford._ - - * * * * * - -Women’s sympathies give a tone, like the harp of Æolus, to the -slightest breath. - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -A coquette is a woman who places her honour in a lottery; ninety-nine -chances to one that she will lose it. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -I do not know that she was virtuous; but she was ugly, and with a woman -that is half the battle. - - _Heine._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never -comes until after the disorder is cured. - - _De la Tour._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -Were we perfectly acquainted with our idol, we should never -passionately desire it. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -Love is like the moon; when it does not increase, it decreases. - - _Ségur._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married man seeks society -to avoid a _tête-à-tête_. - - _Varennes._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body. - - _Boucicault._ - - * * * * * - -One mother is more venerable than a thousand fathers. - - _Laws of Manu._ - - * * * * * - -Tell a woman that she is beautiful, and the devil will repeat it to her -ten times. - - _Italian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate. - - _Juvenal._ - - * * * * * - -God made her small in order to do a more choice bit of workmanship. - - _De Musset._ - - * * * * * - -The venom of the female viper is more poisonous than that of the male -viper. - - _Butler._ - - * * * * * - -Friendships of women are cushions wherein they stick their pins. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women rouge that they may not blush. - - _Italian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -A woman in love is a very poor judge of character. - - _Holland._ - - * * * * * - -There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s whole life is the history of the affections. The heart is her -world; it is there her ambition strives for empire. - - _Washington Irving._ - - * * * * * - -Women never lie more astutely than when they tell the truth to those -who do not believe them. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. - - _Coleridge._ - - * * * * * - -Women never weep more bitterly than when they weep with spite. - - _Ricard._ - - * * * * * - -To love her is a liberal education. - - _Congreve._ - - * * * * * - -It is to woman that the heart appeals when it needs consolation. - - _Demoustier._ - - * * * * * - -Irregular vivacity of temper leads astray the hearts of ordinary women -in the choice of their lovers and the treatment of their husbands. - - _Addison._ - - * * * * * - -A woman without beauty knows but half of life. - - _Mme. de Montaran._ - - * * * * * - -The only confidence that one can repose in the most discreet woman is -the confidence of her beauty. - - _Le Mesle._ - - * * * * * - -A knot of ladies got together by themselves is a very school of -impertinence and detraction, and it is well if those be the worst. - - _Swift._ - - * * * * * - -Never say man, but men; nor women, but woman; for the world has -thousands of men and only one woman. - - _Weiss._ - - * * * * * - -But one thing on earth is better than the wife—that is the mother. - - _Schefer._ - - * * * * * - -A virtuous woman has in the heart a fibre less or a fibre more than -other women; she is stupid or sublime. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past. - - _Amiel._ - - * * * * * - -All women are good—good for nothing, or good for something. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -Women are a new race, re-created since the world received Christianity. - - _Henry Ward Beecher._ - - * * * * * - -Beauty, in a modest woman, is like fire or a sharp sword at a distance: -neither doth the one burn nor the other wound those that come not too -near them. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -What woman desires is written in heaven. - - _La Chaussée._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission -and throne is the family. - - _Todd._ - - * * * * * - -Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman we have ceased to love. - - _Lemontey._ - - * * * * * - -If a wife can induce herself to submit patiently to her husband’s mode -of life, she will have no difficulty to manage him. - - _Aristotle._ - - * * * * * - -Men would be saints if they loved God as they love women. - - _St Thomas._ - - * * * * * - -Than woman there is no fouler and viler fiend when her mind is bent on -ill. - - _Homer._ - - * * * * * - -A woman forgives everything but the fact that you do not covet her. - - _De Musset._ - - * * * * * - -The desire to please is born in women before the desire to love. - - _De Lenclos._ - - * * * * * - -Of all things that man possesses, women alone take pleasure in being -possessed. - - _Malherbe._ - - * * * * * - -Women and young men are apt to tell what secrets they know from the -vanity of having been trusted. - - _Chesterfield._ - - * * * * * - -Women are like pictures; of no value in the hands of a fool, till he -hears men of sense bid high for the purchase. - - _Farquhar._ - - * * * * * - -The best woman is the one least talked about. - - _Schiller._ - - * * * * * - -In this advanced century a girl of sixteen knows as much as her mother, -and enjoys her knowledge much more. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -In love, a woman is like a lyre that surrenders its secrets only to the -hand that knows how to touch its strings. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -Men say knowledge is power; women think dress is power. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -She is the most virtuous woman whom Nature has made the most -voluptuous, and reason the coldest. - - _La Beaumelle._ - - * * * * * - -For one woman who affronts her kind by wicked passions or remorseless -hate, a thousand make amends in age and youth. - - _Mackay._ - - * * * * * - -It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she will -prevent us from accomplishing. - - _Dumas._ - - * * * * * - -A man who is known to have broken many hearts is naturally invested -with a tantalising charm to women who have yet hearts to be broken. - - _Boyesen._ - - * * * * * - -Between a woman’s “yes” and “no” I would not venture to stick a pin. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s love is often a misfortune; her friendship is always a boon. - - _Mézières._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s head is always influenced by her heart, but a man’s heart is -always influenced by his head. - - _Blessington._ - - * * * * * - -Women love always; when earth slips away from them they take refuge in -heaven. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The finger of the first woman loved is like that of God: the imprint of -it is eternal. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Most women prefer that we should talk ill of their virtue rather than -of their wit or of their beauty. - - _Fontenelle._ - - * * * * * - -In buying horses and in taking a wife, shut your eyes tight and commend -yourself to God. - - _Tuscan Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -All women desire to be esteemed; they care much less about being -respected. - - _Dumas._ - - * * * * * - -Women are women but to become mothers: they go to duty through pleasure. - - _Joubert._ - - * * * * * - -Coquetry is a net laid by the vanity of women to ensnare that of man. - - _Bruin._ - - * * * * * - -To a woman of delicate feeling, the most persuasive declaration of love -is the embarrassment of an intellectual man. - - _De Latena._ - - * * * * * - -A coquette is to a man what a toy is to a child; as long as it pleases -him he keeps it. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -When a woman once begins to be ashamed of what she ought not to be -ashamed of, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. - - _Titus Livius._ - - * * * * * - -Friend, beware of fair maidens! When their tenderness begins, our -servitude is near. - - _Victor Hugo._ - - * * * * * - -That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems -incapable, but which is sometimes found in women. - - _Macaulay._ - - * * * * * - -A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see. - - _Browning._ - - * * * * * - -If you wish a coquette to regard you, cease to regard her. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and -that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. - - _Houssaye._ - - * * * * * - -The perfect loveliness of a woman’s countenance can only consist in -that majestic peace which is founded in the memory of happy and useful -years, full of sweet records. - - _Ruskin._ - - * * * * * - -Trust your dog to the end; a woman—till the first opportunity. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -In mythology no god falls in love with Minerva. A mannish woman only -attracts a feminine man. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -Women have the same desires as men, but do not have the same right to -express them. - - _Rousseau._ - - * * * * * - -Youth feeds on its own flowery pastures; in pleasures it builds up a -life that knows no trouble till the name of virgin is lost in that of -wife. - - _Sophocles._ - - * * * * * - -The world is so unjust that a female heart which has once been touched -is thought for ever blemished. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -Nature and custom would, no doubt, agree in conceding to all males the -right of at least two distinct looks at every comely female countenance. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -We love handsome women from inclination, homely women from interest, -and virtuous women from reason. - - _Houssaye._ - - * * * * * - -There is something still more to be studied than a Jesuit, and that is -a Jesuitess. - - _Eugene Sue._ - - * * * * * - -Uneducated men may escape intellectual degradation; uneducated women -cannot. - - _Sydney Smith._ - - * * * * * - -A woman and her servant, acting in accord, would outwit a dozen devils. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Cast in so slight and exquisite a mould, so mild and gentle, so pure -and beautiful, that earth seemed not her element, nor its rough -creatures her fit companions. - - _Dickens._ - - * * * * * - -The wife is a constellation of virtues; she’s the moon, and thou art -the man in the moon. - - _Congreve._ - - * * * * * - -Scylla must have broken off many excellent matches in her time, if she -insisted upon all that loved her loving her dogs also. - - _Lamb._ - - * * * * * - -A light wife doth make a heavy husband. - - _Shakespeare._ - - * * * * * - -Trust a poor woman to dress her children in finery. - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is turned into a love-magnet by a tingling current of life -running around her. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women and maidens must be praised, whether truly or falsely. - - _German Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female. - - _Winckelmann._ - - * * * * * - -The man is the head of the woman, but she rules him by her temper. - - _Russian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Women are in general more addicted to the petty forms of vanity, -jealousy, spitefulness, and ambition, and they are also inferior to men -in active courage. - - _Lecky._ - - * * * * * - -Certain importunities always please women, even when the importuner -does not please. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -It is difficult for a woman ever to try to be anything good when she -is not believed in,—when it is always supposed that she must be -contemptible. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -Woman’s beauty, the forest’s echo, and rainbows soon pass away. - - _German Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -The starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and -sentiment and the infinite enlargements to which they lead. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -However much woman may need deliverance from some outward trials and -disabilities, her grand want is a freer, deeper, richer, holier inward -life. - - _Alger._ - - * * * * * - -He that hath a fair wife never wants trouble. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -The man who awakes the wondering, trembling passion of a young girl -always thinks her affectionate. - - _George Eliot._ - - * * * * * - -A woman, unlike Narcissus, seeks not her own image and a second I; she -much prefers a not I. - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. - - _Lytton._ - - * * * * * - -A wife! A mother! Two magical words, comprising the sweetest source -of man’s felicity. Theirs is the reign of beauty, of love, of -reason,—always a reign. - - _Aimi Martin._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the dwelling-place of religion, and communicates it to the -young. - - _Channing._ - - * * * * * - -The first and chief thing that should be looked for in a woman is fear. - - _Tolstoi._ - - * * * * * - -A woman fascinates a man quite as often by what she overlooks as by -what she sees. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women have no fear of marriage, because they are so occupied in -imagining the happiness it may bring them that they never think of the -possible misery it includes. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Devotion is the last love of women. - - _Saint-Evremond._ - - * * * * * - -A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of -something. - - _Poincelot._ - - * * * * * - -The beauty of some women has days and seasons, and depends upon -accidents which diminish or increase it. - - _Cervantes._ - - * * * * * - -We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our -wives. - - _D’Harleville._ - - * * * * * - -The woman who plays with the love of a loyal man is a curse; she may -close his heart for ever against all confidence in her sex. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -It is the male that gives charm to womankind, that produces an air in -their faces, a grace in their motions, a softness in their voices, and -a delicacy in their complexions. - - _Addison._ - - * * * * * - -In life, woman must wait until she is asked to love, as in a salon she -waits for an invitation to dance. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -A sharp eye can almost always see the train leading from a young girl’s -eye or lip to the “I love you” in her heart. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women, wind, and fortune soon change. - - _Spanish Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -A woman without a laugh in her ... is the greatest bore in nature. - - _Thackeray._ - - * * * * * - -To women, mildness is the best means to be right. - - _Mme. de Fontaines._ - - * * * * * - -Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. - - _Chamfort._ - - * * * * * - -The best shelter for a girl is her mother’s wing. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Whoever, allured by riches or high rank, marries a vicious woman is a -fool. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the -meekest of husbands can bear. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man. - - _Victor Hugo._ - - * * * * * - -A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not -to boast about it. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -Women are twice as religious as men; all the world knows that. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -The most dreadful thing against women is the character of the men who -praise them. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is naturally as much more capricious than a man as she is more -susceptible. A slighter shock suffices to jostle her delicate emotions -out of delight into disgust. - - _Alger._ - - * * * * * - -Love thy wife as thy soul; shake her as a plum-tree. - - _Russian Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks -simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -Time is the sovereign physician of all passions. - - _Montaigne._ - - * * * * * - -Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it. - - _Sand._ - - * * * * * - -Folly was condemned to serve as a guide to Love whom she had blinded. - - _La Fontaine._ - - * * * * * - -The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was -lost through woman, she alone can save it. - - _De Beaufort._ - - * * * * * - -The breaking of a heart leaves no traces. - - _Sand._ - - * * * * * - -From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. - - _Bourdaloue._ - - * * * * * - -’Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. - - _Farquhar._ - - * * * * * - -How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands if it were -not the custom to weep. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Venus with ease engenders wiles in knowing dames; but a woman of simple -capacity, by reason of her small understanding, is removed from folly. - - _Euripides._ - - * * * * * - -Modesty in women has great advantages; it enhances beauty, and serves -as a veil to uncomeliness. - - _Fontenelle._ - - * * * * * - -Of all wild beasts, on earth or in the sea, the greatest is a woman. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -One must tell women only what one wants to be known. - - _Beaumarchais._ - - * * * * * - -Speak to women in a style and manner proper to approach them, they -never fail to improve by your counsels. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -A woman without religion is even worse, a flame without heat, a rainbow -without colour, a flower without perfume. - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety. - - _Tacitus._ - - * * * * * - -I don’t want a woman to weigh me in a balance; there are men enough for -that sort of work. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -Women soften our character, and yet make us heroic. The same traits of -character produce these different effects. - - _Channing._ - - * * * * * - -Women, like empresses, condemn to imprisonment and hard labour -nine-tenths of mankind. - - _Tolstoi._ - - * * * * * - -There is one dangerous science for women, one which let them indeed -beware how they profanely touch; that of theology. - - _Ruskin._ - - * * * * * - -A woman’s fame is the tomb of her happiness. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -There will be so many more women in heaven than men that any marriage, -except of the Mormon kind, would be impossible. - - _Sheldon._ - - * * * * * - -COQUETTE—a female general who builds her fame on her advances. - - _Field._ - - * * * * * - -When, like spoiled children, women cry for the moon, it is because they -have heard that the moon contains a man. - - _Browne._ - - * * * * * - -Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics, or their -learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the -privileges of ours. - - _Goldsmith._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone; man only knows man’s -insensibility to a new gown. - - _Jane Austen._ - - * * * * * - -Women in this degenerate age are rare, to whom aught else but sordid -gain is dear. - - _Ariosto._ - - * * * * * - -Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the -waves. - - _Goethe._ - - * * * * * - -Women are right to crave beauty at any price, since beauty is the only -merit that men do not contest with them. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -Your true flirt plays with sparkles; her heart, much as there is of it, -spends itself in sparkles; she measures it to sparkle, and habit grows -into nature. - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the -prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable. - - _Boyer d’Argens._ - - * * * * * - -Women are the poetry of the world in the same sense as the stars are -the poetry of heaven. - - _Hargrave._ - - * * * * * - -The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of women, -coeval with the act of breathing. - - _Lesage._ - - * * * * * - -Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their -rivals. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Women are, for the most part, good or bad, as they fall amongst those -who practise virtue or vice. - - _Johnson._ - - * * * * * - -Women exceed the generality of men in love. - - _La Bruyère._ - - * * * * * - -Women commend a modest man, and like him not. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -A delicate woman is the best instrument; she has such a magnificent -compass of sensibilities. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -To say “Everyone is talking about him” is a eulogy; but to say -“Everyone is talking about her” is an elegy. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. - - _Victor Hugo._ - - * * * * * - -Confound the make-believe women we have turned loose in our streets. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -It is easier to take care of a peck of fleas than of one woman. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Women are like thermometers, which, on a sudden application of heat, -sink at first a few degrees, as preliminary to rising a good many. - - _Richter._ - - * * * * * - -Until we know woman, we know not _strength of love_. In this we have, -perhaps, the best emblem of omnipotence as well as divine goodness. - - _Channing._ - - * * * * * - -A coquette sparkles, but it is more the sparkle of a harmless and -pretty vanity than of calculation. - - _Mitchell._ - - * * * * * - -Her step is music, and her voice is song. - - _Bailey._ - - * * * * * - -Man carves his destiny; woman is helped to hers. - - _Julia Ward Howe._ - - * * * * * - -If the women did not make idols of us, and if they saw us as we see -each other, would life be bearable or could society go on? - - _Thackeray._ - - * * * * * - -Women are apt to love the men who they think have the largest capacity -of loving. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -There are few women whose charms survive their beauty. - - _La Rochefoucauld._ - - * * * * * - -A woman despises a man for loving her unless she happens to return his -love. - - _Elizabeth Stoddard._ - - * * * * * - -Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes -from her. - - _De Méré._ - - * * * * * - -Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none -when they die. - - _Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -Women never truly command till they have given their promise to obey; -and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the -men are at their feet. - - _Farquhar._ - - * * * * * - -A woman who is guided by the head, and not by the heart, is a social -pestilence. - - _Balzac._ - - * * * * * - -An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the -heart of a coquette. - - _Poincelot._ - - * * * * * - -Voluptuaries know what they talk about when they profess not to care -for sense in woman. - - _Leigh Hunt._ - - * * * * * - -A woman who has surrendered her lips has surrendered everything. - - _Viaud._ - - * * * * * - -A woman repents sincerely of her fault only after being weaned from her -infatuation for the one who induced her to commit it. - - _De Latena._ - - * * * * * - -Let the great soul incarnated in some woman’s form, poor and sad and -single, in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service. - - _Emerson._ - - * * * * * - -Woman, naturally enthusiastic of the good and beautiful, sanctifies all -that she surrounds with her affection. - - _Mercier._ - - * * * * * - -Woman have more understanding than we have, and women of spirit are not -to be won by mourners. - - _Steele._ - - * * * * * - -Marry a virgin, that thou mayst teach her discreet manners. - - _Hesiod._ - - * * * * * - -Pretty women gaze at a beauty with envy, homely women with spite, old -men with regret, young men with transport. - - _D’Argens._ - - * * * * * - -Hell is paved with women’s tongues. - - _Abbé Guyon._ - - * * * * * - -A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. - - _De Lenclos._ - - * * * * * - -We never fall in love with a woman, in distinction from women, until we -can get an image of her through a pinhole. - - _Holmes._ - - * * * * * - -However talkative a woman may be, love teaches her silence. - - _Rochebrune._ - - * * * * * - -There is something so gross in the carriage of some wives that they -lose their husbands’ hearts. - - _Budgell._ - - * * * * * - -Men declare their love before they feel it; women confess theirs only -after they have proved it. - - _De Latena._ - - * * * * * - -In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised -that one finds pleasure in frequently recommencing. - - _Prince de Ligne._ - - * * * * * - -The heart of a loving woman is a golden sanctuary, where often there -reigns an idol of clay. - - _Limayrae._ - - * * * * * - -Women call repentance the sweet remembrance of their faults and the -bitter regret of their inability to recommence them. - - _Beaumanoir._ - - * * * * * - -Virtue, with some women, is but the precaution of locking doors. - - _Lemontey._ - - * * * * * - -She had married her husband for his wit, and was willing to do the next -best thing for any man who was wittier. - - _Francis Prevost._ - - * * * * * - -Women are often ruined by their sensitiveness and saved by their -coquetry. - - _Mdlle. Azaïs._ - - * * * * * - -In love only the awkward are punished—like the Spartan thieves. - - _Anonymous._ - - * * * * * - -The action of woman on our destiny is unceasing. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -The weaknesses of women have been given them by nature to exercise the -virtues of men. - - _Mme. Necker._ - - * * * * * - -The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she loves. - - _Mirabeau._ - - * * * * * - -Love renders chaste the most voluptuous pleasures. - - _Virey._ - - * * * * * - -Manners, morals, customs change: the passions are always the same. - - _Mme. de Flahaut._ - - * * * * * - -Discretion is more necessary to women than eloquence. - - _Du Bosc._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their -happiness. - - _Mme. de Rieux._ - - * * * * * - -Orpheus went to Hell to find his wife: how many widowers would not even -go to Heaven to find theirs? - - _Petit-Senn._ - - * * * * * - -When a lover gives, he demands—and much more than he has given. - - _Parny._ - - * * * * * - -A reputation for success has as much influence with women as a -reputation for wealth has with men. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -Women give themselves to God when the Devil wants nothing more to do -with them. - - _Sophie Arnould._ - - * * * * * - -The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to -the senses. - - _Karr._ - - * * * * * - -Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty. - - _Massias._ - - * * * * * - -Women distrust men too much in general, and not enough in particular. - - _Commerson._ - - * * * * * - -There is a magic in Duty which sustains judges, inflames warriors and -cools the married. - - _Dupuy._ - - * * * * * - -There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women -that are unlovable. - - _Hovellé._ - - * * * * * - -Love is a beggar who still begs when one has given him everything. - - _Rochepedre._ - - * * * * * - -The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country -more verdant and beautiful. - - _Mme. Necker._ - - * * * * * - -The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love. - - _De Lenclos._ - - * * * * * - -A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers. - - _Raisson._ - - * * * * * - -Science seldom renders men amiable; women never. - - _Beauchêne._ - - * * * * * - -Women are in the moral world what flowers are in the physical. - - _Maréchal._ - - * * * * * - -Who loves not women, wine and song, remains a fool his whole life long. - - _Martin Luther._ - - * * * * * - -Virtue and Love are two ogres: one must eat the other. - - _D’Houdetot._ - - * * * * * - -Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. - - _De Lenclos._ - - * * * * * - -Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by -drop a truth that is bitter. - - _Diderot._ - - * * * * * - -A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of -something. - - _Poincelot._ - - * * * * * - -The society of women endangers men’s morals and refines their manners. - - _Montesquieu._ - - * * * * * - -Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more -interesting than history. - - _Chamfort._ - - * * * * * - -Fortune hath somewhat of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too -closely wooed, is commonly the further off. - - _Charles V._ - - * * * * * - -Great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh. - - _Voltaire._ - - * * * * * - -One is always a woman’s first lover. - - _De Laclos._ - - * * * * * - -Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover. - - _Lammenais._ - - * * * * * - -Devotion is the last love of women. - - _St Evremond._ - - * * * * * - -Love, that sometimes corrupts pure bodies, often purifies corrupt -hearts. - - _Laténa._ - - * * * * * - -Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible -and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies. - - _De Varennes._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage is often but ennui for two. - - _Commerson._ - - * * * * * - -Love that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it. - - _Sénancourt._ - - * * * * * - -Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature’s casket for the -ornamentation and happiness of man. - - _Guyard._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. - - _Lacon._ - - * * * * * - -Love is like medical science—the art of assisting Nature. - - _Lallemand._ - - * * * * * - -To continue love in marriage is a science. - - _Mme. Reyband._ - - * * * * * - -The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry. - - _Jouy._ - - * * * * * - -It is not love that ruins us; it is the way we make it. - - _Bussy-Rabutin._ - - * * * * * - -Marriage in our days?—I would almost say that it is a rape by contract. - - _Michelet._ - - * * * * * - -A coquette often loses her reputation while she possesses her virtue. - - _Spectator._ - - * * * * * - -A lover is a man who endeavours to be more amiable than it is possible -for him to be: this is the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous. - - _Chamfort._ - - * * * * * - -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._ - - * * * * * - -Possession is the touchstone of love. - - _Panage._ - - * * * * * - -Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman, and the first she takes -from her. - - _Méré._ - - * * * * * - -It is a terrible thing to be obliged to love by contract. - - _Bussy-Rabutin._ - - * * * * * - -Our strong passions break into a thousand purposes; women have one. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -Women alone can organise a drawing-room: man succeeds sometimes in a -library. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -Male firmness is very often obstinacy. Women have always something -better, worth all qualities. They have tact. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -The woman who is talked about is generally virtuous, and she is only -abused because she devotes to _one_ the charms which all wish to enjoy. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -There is no mortification, however keen, no misery, however desperate, -which the spirit of woman cannot in some degree lighten or alleviate. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of -our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration -imperceptibly vanish. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -Where there are crowned heads there are always some charming women. - - _Lord Beaconsfield._ - - * * * * * - -There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her -having more sense than himself. - - _Fielding._ - - * * * * * - -It is only a woman that can make a man become the parody of himself. - - _French Proverb._ - - * * * * * - -There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as -there is one on the earth. - - _Boufflers._ - - -The End - - - - -TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: - - Text in italics is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. - - Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. - - Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been - preserved. - - Inconsistencies in the book’s title have been preserved. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Woman and Her Wits, by G. 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