Chapter WOE to WOMAN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Scott.—Marmion, Canto I. Stanza 17.

Oh woman! whose form and whose soul
Are the spell and the light of each path we pursue;
Whether sunn’d in the tropics or chill’d at the pole,
If woman be there, there is happiness too.

Tom Moore.—On leaving Philadelphia, Vol. II. Verse 5.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

Gay.—The Beggar’s Opera, Act II. Scene 1.

What’s a table richly spread,
Without a woman at its head?

T. Wharton.—Progress of Discontent, Line 39.

The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh’d, till woman smiled.

Campbell.—Pleasures of Hope, Part II.

Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you!

Otway.—Venice Preserved, Act I. Scene 1.

I’ll shew you a sight that you’ll fancy uncommon,
Wit, beauty, and goodness, all met in a woman;
A heart to no folly or mischief inclin’d,
A body all grace, and all sweetness a mind.

Ed. Moore.—Envy and Fortune.

WOMAN.—O woman! in our hours of ease
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

Scott.—Marmion, Canto VI. Stanza 30.

When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?

Goldsmith.—Stanzas on Woman.

If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 7.

In her first passion, woman loves her lover;
In all the others, all she loves is love.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 3.

Were you, ye fair, but cautious whom ye trust,
Did you but think how seldom fools are just,
So many of your sex would not in vain,
Of broken vows, and faithless men, complain.

Rowe.—The Fair Penitent, Act II. Scene 1.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
In spite of all the virtue we can boast,
The woman that deliberates is lost.

Addison.—Cato, Act IV.