Coventry Patmore: Woman

Coventry Patmore was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on woman.

Coventry Patmore: 66 quotes1 like

“The proper study of mankind is woman.”

Coventry Patmore

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 77.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapen'd paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,
Which, spent with due, respective thrift,
Had made brutes men, and men divine.”

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto III, III Unthrift.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“A woman is a foreign land.”

Coventry Patmore

Book II. Canto IX, II The Foreign Land.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“The difference between a commonly well-behaved woman and a high-bred lady consists in very small things—but what a difference it is!”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XI, p. 156.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)