Stout Ageing Woman

Famous quotes containing the words stout, ageing and/or woman:

“At last these two stout erles did meet,
Like captaines of great might;”
—Unknown. Chevy Chase (l. 121–122)

“But I must needs take my petulance, contrasting it with my accustomed morning hopefulness, as a sign of the ageing of appetite, of a decay in the very capacity of enjoyment. We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal which may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine- work which is so large a part of life.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)

“There’s not a woman turns her face
Upon a broken tree,
And yet the beauties that I loved
Are in my memory....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)