“It would be less dangerous for a man to court every lady in an entire land than for a lady to remove a single besotted lover from her skirts, for he will immediately attempt to strike back.”

"Chaitivel", line 19; p. 105.
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medieval poet

Noel Langley (1911–1980) South African writer

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“You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.”

Plautus Asinaria

Asinaria, Act I, scene 3.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)

“I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.”

Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)

1989.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial

“A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

Source: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself

“Hillary Clinton is a clear and present danger to the Constitution, the rule of law, and international peace and security. Her eagerness for war, i. e., legalized murder, to create an image of adolescent toughness makes her a worse fit for the Presidency than would Lady Macbeth.”

Bruce Fein (1947) American lawyer

Bruce Fein, Hillary Clinton: Unfit for the Presidency, Huffington Post, October 16, 2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/hillary-clinton-unfit-for_b_8313372.html

“She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

The Rose and the Ring http://www.gutenberg.org/files/897/897-h/897-h.htm#2H_4_0004 (1855), Ch. 2.

“The ladies of our country should be able to realise from this description the good fortune of their birth, and the extent of their freedom when compared with the position of ladies like them in other lands.”

Francisco Pelsaert (1591–1630) Dutch merchant, commander of the ship Batavia

Jahangir’s India
Source: quoted in K.S. Lal, The Mughal Harem (1988), 12