“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
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“Always make sure that your woman is smiling, feeling loved and happily alive.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Fate sempre in modo che la vostra donna sorrida, si senta amata e felicemente viva.
Source: prevale.net
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) Scottish poet and dramatist
Act V, scene 3.
Count Basil (1798)
“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Source: Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854
Sister Nivedita book The Web of Indian Life
[The Web of Indian Life, Ch. V: The Place of Women in the National Life, http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/wil/wil07.htm, 20 June 2012, Sister Nivedita]
The Web of Indian Life (1904)
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A Village Tale. from The London Literary Gazette: 6th December 1823 Poetic Sketches. Fourth Series. Sketch IV.
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 16
