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Quotes from Hints for Lovers — Arnold Haultain

1857–1941 Canada

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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Woman is a species of which every woman is a variety.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

It often gives a lady a pleasure to give her lover a pang.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

A wounded love carries a scar to the grave.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet,
It is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness.
If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

A man imagines he wins by strenuous assault. The woman knows the victory was due to surrender.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that
With women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed,
It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Widows rarely choose unwisely!

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Attribution

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