“Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.”
William Makepeace Thackeray book The Virginians
Source: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 4.
“Women resist in order to be conquered.”
Act IV., Scene IV. — (Il Quercivola.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 388.
L’Alessandro (1544)
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