Famous quotes containing the words thou art, woman, thou and/or art:
“Thou Echo, thou art mortal, all men know.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou com’st in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... in the fierce competition of modern society the only class left in the country possessing leisure is that of women supported in easy circumstances by husband or father, and it is to this class we must look for the maintenance of cultivated and refined tastes, for that value and pursuit of knowledge and of art for their own sakes which can alone save society from degenerating into a huge machine for making money, and gratifying the love of sensual luxury.”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)