XVIII. A WOMAN either loves or hates; she knows PUBLIUS SYRUS. no medium. THE error of certain women is to imagine that, to acquire distinction, they must imitate the manners of men. JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE. WOMAN'S virtue is the music of stringed instruments, which sounds best in a room. JEAN PAUL RICHTER. WITH Women, the desire to bedeck themselves is always the desire to please. JEAN FRANÇOIS DE MARMONTEL. In life, as in a promenade, woman must lean on a man above her. ALPHONSE KARR. KINDNESS in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. SOME Women need much adorning, as some meat needs much seasoning to incite appe tite. ROCHEBRUNE. 'Tis government that makes them seem divine. WILLIAM 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. MLLE. DE SCUDÉRI. NATURE is in earnest when she makes a OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. woman. HOWEVER virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure. PRINCE DE LIGNE. No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women, - not even to his own. HONORÉ De Balzac. THE anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which one can threaten his enemies. CHILLON. WHAT furniture can give such a finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirrings of delight as the sweet modulations of her voice? GEORGE ELIOT. 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. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THERE is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. NATURE has given to women fortitude enough to resist a certain time, but not enough to resist completely the inclination which they cherish. CLAUDE JOSEPH Dorat. YE are stars of the night, ye are gems of the WITHOUT Woman the two extremes of life would be without succor, and the middle without pleasure. ANONYMOUS. I TORE my gown, I soil'd my locks with FOR where is any author in the world A TERMAGANT wife may, therefore, in some respects be considered a tolerable blessing. WASHINGTON IRVING. YET in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man: He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward ALFRED TENNYSON. care. DIVINATION Seems heightened to its highest power in woman. A. BRONSON ALCOTT. SILENCE has been given to woman to better express her thoughts. LOUIS CLAUDE JOSEPH DESNOYERS. NATURE has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. SAMUEL JOHNSON. THE Society of women endangers men's morals and refines their manners. CHARLES DE SECONDAT MONTESQUIEU. WOMEN are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent. PORTUGUESE PROVERB. THE virtuous woman who falls in love is much to be pitied. FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUcauld. A COQUETTE is more occupied with the homage we refuse her than with that we bestow upon her. ANTOINE DUPUY. A WOMAN without religion is even worse, a flame without heat, a rainbow without color, a flower without perfume. DONALD G. MITCHELL. WOMEN are extremists; they are either better or worse than men. JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE. |