“Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
She 'as ships on the foam—she 'as millions at 'ome,
An' she pays us poor beggars in red.”
The Widow at Windsor, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
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Rudyard Kipling200
English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936Related quotes
“Like many widows, she came to the unwise decision of remarrying.”
Honoré de Balzac book Pierrette
Comme beaucoup de veuves, elle eut l'idée malsaine de se remarier.
Source: Pierrette (1840), Ch. I: The Lorrains.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“She sounds like a sensible person.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 11
William Darling (politician) (1885–1962) Scottish politician
Source: The Bankrupt Bookseller (1947), p. 178
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Une veuve a deux tâches dont les obligations se contredisent: elle est mère et doit exercer la puissance paternelle.
Source: A Bachelor's Establishment (1842), Ch. I.
“In horror, in terror, she accepted the metamorphosis — gnat, foam, ant, until death.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
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All Men are Mortal (1946)
Context: In horror, in terror, she accepted the metamorphosis — gnat, foam, ant, until death. And it's only the beginning, she thought. She stood motionless, as if it were possible to play tricks with time, possible to stop it from following its course. But her hands stiffened against her quivering lips.
When the bells began to sound the hour she let out the first scream.
