“Women are like pictures of no value in the hands of a fool
til he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase”.
George Farquhar.
“No woman can be a beauty without a fortune”.
George Farquhar.
” How a little love and good company improves a woman”.
George Farquhar.
” The happiest women, like the happiest nations , have no history”.
George Elliot.
“The only useless life is woman’s”.
Benjamin Disraeli.
“There is no music when a woman is in the concert”.
Thomas Dekker.
“Women are never stronger than when they
arm themselves with their weaknesses”.
Madame Du Deffand.
“Women are like tricks of slight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand”.
William Congreve.
“Heav’n has no rage like love to hatred turn’d
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned”.
William Congreve.
“A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks”.
Mortimer Collins.
“What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her”.
Churton Collins.
“A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved
by a strong head, but a corrupt woman is lost forever”.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
“Women are much more like each other than men:
they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love;
these are their universal characteristics”.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.
“A man of sense only trifles with them[women],
plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he
does with a sprightly and forward child; but he
neither consults with them about,
nor trusts them with, serious matters”.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Stanhope.
Had to get off that political jag I was on.
Did the above tickle your fancy?,
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Islander.