ture without culture and art without talent; so long as she orders her court dress in a hurry; so long as she makes no attempt to interest herself in her servants, in her animals, in the poor slaves of her tradespeople; so long as she shows herself, as she does at present, without scruple at every brutal and debasing spectacle which is considered fashionable; so long as she understands nothing of the beauty of meditation, of solitude, of Nature; so long as she is utterly incapable of keeping her sons out of the shambles of modern sport, and lifting her daughters above the pestilent miasma of modern society, — so long as she does not, cannot, or will not either do or cause to do any of these things, she has no possible title or capacity to demand the place or the privilege of man. QUIDA. XIX. IF all women's faces were cast in the same mould, that mould would be the grave of love. MARIE FRANÇOIS XAVIER BICHAT. WHAT Color would it not have given to my thoughts, and what thrice-washed whiteness to my words, had I been fed on women's praises. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ONE may see the heart of women through the rents which one may make in their selflove. ANONYMOUS. WOMEN and music should never be dated. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, MEN never are consoled for their first love, nor women for their last. JEAN JACQUES WEISS. IF the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. LORD LANDDOMES. It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she will prevent us from accomplishing. ALEXANDRE Dumas. A MAN who is known to have broken many hearts is naturally invested with a tantalizing charm to women who have yet hearts to be broken. HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN. BETWEEN a woman's "yes" and "no" I would not venture to stick a pin. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. A WOMAN'S love is often a misfortune; her friendship is always a boon. LOUIS MÉZIÈRES. A WOMAN'S head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head. COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. WOMEN love always; when earth slips away from them they take refuge in heaven. ANONYMOUS. WOMEN are constantly the dupes, or the victims, of their extreme sensitiveness. HONORÉ DE BALZAC. WHEN a man says he has a wife, it means that a wife has him. SULPICE GUILLAUME GAVARNI. WOMAN is more constant in hatred than in ANONYMOUS. love. WOMEN do not live in the future; their reign is from day to day; it is the reign of beauty which can only lose by advancing. Women of genius who wish to govern the world never contemplate a distant horizon. ARSENE HOUSSAYE. A WOMAN dies twice: the day that she quits life and the day that she ceases to please. JEAN JACQUES WEISS. "Nor ten yoke of oxen Have the power to draw us Like a woman's hair." HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. WHAT a woman wills, God wills. PROVERB. WOMAN, the redeemer, the new Messiah, must come in crimps and ribbons or receive a slattern's welcome. Seductive beauty will convert more souls than repellent austerity. FREDERICK W. MORTON. SOME women kindle emotion so rapidly in a man's heart, that the judgment cannot keep pace with it. THOMAS HARDY. THE Bible says that woman is the last thing which God made. He must have made it on Saturday night. It shows fatigue. SOME men are different; all women are alike. THE empire of woman is an empire of sweetness, skilfulness, and attractiveness; her orders are caresses, her evils are tears. JEAN JACQUES 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. VICTOR CHerbuliez. THERE are some lips from which even the proudest women love to hear the censure which appears to disprove indifference. EDWARD BULWER-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 MANOU. |