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Women Quotes - Page 120

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.1584, Simon and Schuster

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.189

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.192

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.309

As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.

P. N. Elrod (2011). “The Vampire Files, Volume Three”, p.384, Penguin

Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press