“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.”
Act V, scene 3.
Count Basil (1798)
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Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Context: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”
De toutes les passions violentes, celle qui sied le moins mal aux femmes, c'est l'amour.
Maxim 466.
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Source: James O'Donnell Bennett (1908) When Good Fellows Get Together, p. 147