Famous quotes containing the words thou art, woman, thou and/or art:
“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In our minds lives the madonna image—the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model—the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“O my black soul! Now thou art summoned
By sickness, death’s herald, and champion;
Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done
Treason,”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)