“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894)
Letters
"Fidelity"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894)
Letters
“Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 124
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
The Life And Teachings Of Muhammad: Two Lectures by Annie Besant http://hpb.narod.ru/LifeTeachingsOfMuhammadAB.html
“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) fashion designer
Variant: The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”
Walter Scott book The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Arlo Guthrie (1947) American folk singer
First line to each performance.
Alice's Restaurant Massacree