“Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Source: Silent in the Grave
“Do not choose for your wife any woman you would not choose for a friend if she were a man.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Prologue; Gilbert Markham, in the opening line of the novel
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) British composer, writer and grocer
(from vol 2, letter 13: 29 Nov 1778, to Mr S___ in Madras).
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
As quoted in Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1771) by Horace Walpole often credited as being the origin of the phrase "warts and all".
Variant: Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.
Brigham Young (1801–1877) Latter Day Saint movement leader
Journal of Discourses 8:140 (August 5, 1860)
1860s