Chapter WOMEN to WON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WOMEN to WON

WOMEN.—Most women have no characters at all.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. Line 2.

What! fair, and young, and faithful too?
A miracle, if this be true!

Anonymous.—Said to be from a play of Waller’s.

Hard is the fortune that your sex attends;
Women, like princes, find few real friends.

Lyttleton.—Advice to a Lady, 1731, Line 9.

WOMEN.—Two women plac’d together makes cold weather.

Shakespeare.—Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 4. (The Chamberlain to Lord Sands.)

No reason ask, our reason is our will.

Marston.—The Malcontent, Act I. Scene 6.

And what they think in their hearts they may effect—they will break their hearts but they will effect.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Scene 2. (Ford.)

I’ve seen your stormy seas and stormy women,
And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

Byron.—Sardanapalus.

We cannot fight for love as men may do;
We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II. Scene 2. (Helena to Demetrius.)

Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?

Ben Jonson.—A Song. The Forest.

One moral’s plain—without more fuss;
Man’s social happiness all rests on us:
Through all the drama—whether damn’d or not—
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

Sheridan.—Epilogue to the Rivals, Line 3.

WON.—She’s beautiful; and therefore to be woo’d;
She’s a woman; and therefore to be won.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act V. Scene 3. (Suffolk and Lady Margaret.)

She is a woman, therefore may be woo’d;
She is a woman, therefore may be won.

Shakespeare.—Titus Andronicus, Act II. Scene 1. (Demetrius to Aaron.)

Was ever woman in this humour woo’d?
Was ever woman in this humour won?

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act I. Scene 2. (Richard and Lady Anne.)

WON.—Hero’s looks yielded, but her words made war:
Women are won when they begin to jar.

Marlow.—Hero and Leander, First Sestiad.