Woman Thou Art

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

    “Oh Conventionalism, what a ninny, thou art, to be sure.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
    —Germaine de Staël (1766–1817)

    “When by thy scorn, O murderess, I am dead,
    And that thou think’st thee free
    From all solicitation from me,
    Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “An aphorism, honestly stamped and molded, has not yet been “deciphered” once we have read it over; rather, its exegesis—for which an art of exegesis is needed—has only just begun.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)