“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
Act V, scene 3.
Count Basil (1798)
“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Basque girl and Henri Quatre from The London Literary Gazette (12th October 1822)
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Context: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date
“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
De toutes les passions violentes, celle qui sied le moins mal aux femmes, c'est l'amour.
Maxim 466.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
“Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.”
Arsène Houssaye (1814–1896) French writer
Source: James O'Donnell Bennett (1908) When Good Fellows Get Together, p. 147
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: This is Where I Leave You