“No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.”
Source: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter VII
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Les femmes tiennent et doivent toutes tenir à être honorées, car sans l'estime elles n'existent plus. Aussi est-ce le premier sentiment qu'elles demandent à l'amour.
Source: A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. III: At Thirty Years.
Interview at 20th Annual GLAAD Awards (18 April 2009) http://www.l-word.com/news/GLAAD_LA2009_2.php.
“Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.”
II, st. 2
The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/
Context: Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love’s pleasure drives his love away,
The painter’s brush consumes his dreams.
“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532), Chapter 29 : How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred Giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their Captain (Loup-garou is the french term for werewolf).
Source: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 16 (p. 173)
“One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men.”
On a toujours assez vécu, quand on a eu le temps d’acquérir l’amour des femmes et l’estime des hommes.
Letter 79: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_79
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
Part 2, chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=6DPQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22intimacies+between+women+go+backwards+beginning+with+revelations+and+ending+up+in+small+talk+without+loss+of+esteem%22&pg=PA172#v=onepage
The Death of the Heart (1939)
The dangers of an AIDS epidemic. The New York Times, sect. A, p. 31 (December 9, 1993).
Lews Therin Telamon
(9 November 2000)
Source: Winter's Heart