Women Quotes - Page 57
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.117
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
In W. H. Auden A Certain World (1970) p. 369
I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.
Elsa Barker, “The Mystic Rose”
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan
Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK
Confucius (1998). “论语”
Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.158, Everyman's Library
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.333, Penguin
Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”