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

A woman’s honour is her safest guard.

Tobin.—The Honey Moon, Act II. Scene 1.

WOMAN.—To be slow in words is a woman’s only virtue.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III. Scene 1. (Launce to Speed.)

Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act IV. Scene 4. (Richard after saluting Queen Elizabeth.)

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

Lyttleton.—Advice to a Lady, 1731, Line 40.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. To a Lady. Line 270.

A woman, that is like a German clock,
Still a repairing; ever out of frame;
And never going aright, being a watch,
But being watch’d that it may still go right!

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act III. Scene 1. (Biron’s soliloquy on Love.)

’Tis not her air, for sure in that
There’s nothing more than common;
And all her sense is only chat,
Like any other woman.

Whitehead.—A Song.

But what is woman?—only one of
Nature’s agreeable blunders.

Mrs. Cowley.—Who’s the Dupe, Act II. Scene 2.

A woman is like to—but stay,
What a woman is like, who can say?
There’s no living with, or without one,
She’s like nothing on earth but a woman.

Hoare.—Lock and Key, Act I. Scene 2.