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Alfred Austin on Women

1835–1913 England

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4 quotes

Women are more frequently charming than men, because they are less self-conscious.

The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)

Women love all whom grief and death attaint.

Savonarola (1881)

Men preach Philosophy, women practise it.

Lamia's Winter-Quarters (1898)

... 'tis ordained,
In death, as sooth in every pinch of life,
That women, lest they cry too loud, must hug
Their agony in silence.

Savonarola (1881)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Austin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.