“Sir Impey Biggs: Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.”
Source: Clouds of Witness (1926)
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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957Related quotes
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 485–487 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin
“I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.”
Of the music of Frederick Delius
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 31-37 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 "A New Life Plan for Women".
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
Context: When at the beginning of the so-called modern age, at the Renaissance, the pagan sense of religion came to life again, it took the concrete form in the knightly ideal with its codes of conduct of love and honor. But it was a paganism Christianized, baptized. "Woman — la donna — was the divinity enshrined within those savage breasts. Whosoever will investigate the memorials of primitive times will find this ideal of woman in its full force and purity; the Universe is woman.
