In her first passion, woman loves her lover:
In all the others, all she loves is love.
Don Juan, Canto III. LORD BYRON.
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
'T is woman's whole existence. Man may range
The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart,
Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange
Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart,
And few there are whom these cannot estrange:
Men have all these resources, we but one,—
To love again, and be again undone.
Don Juan, Canto I. LORD BYRON.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.
King Henry VI., Part I. Act v. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Alas, the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing;
For all of theirs upon that die is thrown,
And if 't is lost, life hath no more to bring
To them but mockeries of the past atone,
And their revenge is as the tiger's spring,
Deadly and quick and crushing; yet as real
Torture is theirs—what they inflict they feel.
Don Juan, Canto II. LORD BYRON.
We call it only pretty Fanny's way.
An Elegy to an Old Beauty. T. PARNELL.
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
As You Like It, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.
The Princess: Prologue. A. TENNYSON.
If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.
As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE.
Ladies like variegated tulips show,
'T is to their changes half their charms we owe.
Fine by defect, and delicately weak,
Their happy spots the nice admirer take.
Moral Essays, Pt. II A. POPE.
And when a lady's in the case,
You know all other things give place.
The Hare and Many Friends J. GAY.