Les femmes les plus vertueuses ont en elles quelque chose qui n'est jamais chaste.
Part I, Meditation IV, aphorism XX.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Les femmes les plus vertueuses ont en elles quelque chose qui n'est jamais chaste.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
“Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.”
The Story of a Country Town, Chapter 30 http://books.google.com/books?id=rbwEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Men+are+virtuous+because+the+women+are+women%22+%22virtuous+from+necessity%22&pg=PA353#v=onepage (1883).
Source: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Source: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Marriage and Single Life
“I will give them something they have never seen before.”
Gladiator (2000 film)
Context: I will win the crowd. I will give them something they have never seen before.
“Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Marcelo H. del Pilar to the women of Bulacan (1889)
