Familiar Quotations? - Women

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1. "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." George Eliot Jane Austen Mary Shelley Christina Rossetti

2. "There is a tide in the affairs of women, which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where." George Gordon, Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge Percy Byshhe Shelley John Keats

3. "Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals." George Bernard Shaw Ambrose Bierce Dr. Samuel Johnson Oscar Wilde

4. "A perfect woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort, and command." William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sir Walter Scott

5. "O Woman! In our hours of ease/ Uncertain, coy, and hard to please." Alfred, Lord Tennyson William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. "For the female of the species is more deadly than the male." H.G. Wells Anthony Trollope George Bernard Shaw Rudyard Kipling

7. "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can." Geoffrey Chaucer Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw Charles Dickens

8. "A lady's imagination is very rapid. It jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." Jane Austen Emily Bronte George Eliot Charlotte Bronte

9. "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies." "The Bible - Ecclesiastes" "The Bible - Song of Solomon" "The Bible - Psalms" "The Bible - Proverbs"

10. "Stay far hence, far hence, forbidding women!" Juvenal Catullus Ovid Martial