Quotes About Woman

Upon my word, sir,'said he, 'I've hardly looked at her. It is not a matter of looks now, as it used to be. It has got beyond that. It is not that I am indifferent to seeing a pretty face, or that I have no longer an opinion of my own about a woman's figure. But there grows up, I think, a longing which almost kills that consideration.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

Believe me, dear child, a state of virgin maidenhood is the happiest lot for woman; but beauty betrays us to love and love is the father of trouble.

So is a woman born — a woman. They are clinging, parasite things, which cannot but adhere; though they destroy themselves by adhering. Do not suppose that I take a pride in it. I would give one of my eyes to be able to disregard him.

Nothing, perhaps, adds so much to womanhood, turns the child so quickly into a woman, as such death-bed scenes as these.

For a young woman to accept money from a man seemed to imply that some return of favours would be due. But […] that feeling came from what was dirty and not from what was noble in the world.

Perhaps he doesn't mind it," said Mr. Camperdown to himself, "but I wouldn't marry such a woman myself, though she owned all Scotland.

It was a thousand pities that so good a woman should have been driven by the sad stress of circumstances to tell so many fibs. One after another she was compelled to invent them, that there might be a way open to her of escaping the horrors of a prolonged sojourn in that hotel.

The duchess was in her way a clever woman, and could see many things. She

She liked lies, thinking them to be more beautiful than truth. To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in woman and an added grace in man.

It cannot be said that she was a bad woman, though she had in her time done an indescribable amount of evil. She had endeavoured to do good, failing partly by ignorance and partly from the effects of an unbridled, ambitious temper.

There were a reality and a truth about her which came home to him, and made themselves known to him as firm rocks which could not be shaken. He had never declared to himself that deceit or hypocrisy in a woman was especially abominable. As a rule he looked for it in women, and would say that some amount of affectation was necessary to a woman's character

not, at any rate, such a woman as her. It went against the grain with Mr. Sowerby, this seeking of pecuniary assistance from the very woman whose hand he had attempted to gain about a fortnight since; but he allowed his sister to prevail. What

But I'm not repentant!" The Duke's voice rose suddenly high and passionate. "I love the woman—she is my life—all my bliss.

You cannot help it, chérie." Mirabelle's small greenish eyes fixed themselves kindly on Elizabeth. She nodded and shrugged. "You cannot help acting from what you were taught in childhood, even though you don't want to. Above all this is true for a woman.

I only knew a woman I suspected was haunted by devils. What those were, I was never told." She sighed. "I think that's why I went to her wake. To apologize for not pushing harder.

There is no beast more stubborn than a woman. And neither fire nor leopard is more ruthless.

The landlady was a fiftyish woman in a plum-colored kimono.

Could we go into your room? she asked. I knew it. I knew it, he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is going to declare her undying affection

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.