Woman Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, woman, thou and/or art:

    Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
    When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
    Robert Greene (1558?–1592)

    Was it the double of my dream
    The woman that by me lay
    Dreamed, or did we halve a dream
    Under the first cold gleam of day?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
    Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)