A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.475, 4 Sep.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.31.

I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

-Addison,Joseph
  The Drummer, act1, sc.1.

Ningue¤  m no cais tem um nome so¤  .Todos te"  m tambe¤  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo¤  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

-Amado,Jorge
  Mar morto (Sea of Death,1984),'Iemanja¤ ' .

Widgongel wif word gespringeth. A roving woman gives rise to gossip.

-Anonymous
c.900  Maxims I, l.64.

There is no woman who does not dream of being dressed in Paris.

-Anonymous
  Catalogue of the1925 Paris Exhibition. Quoted in Colin McDowell McDowell's Directory of  Twentieth Century Fashion (1984), ch.1.

Prudence is the other woman in Gordon's life.

-Anonymous
  On Gordon Brown. Comment from unidentified aide, quoted on BBC News online, 20 Mar.

Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.

-Anouilh,Jean
L'Hermine, act1.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  The Robber Bride, ch.48.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike heröshe was onlyan Object of Contempt.

-Austen,Jane
  Love and Freindship,'Letter the13th'.

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersöNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

-Austen,Jane
  Mansfield Park, ch.14.

Goldsmith tells us, when a lovely woman stoops to folly, shehasnothing to do but die; and when shestoopsto be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. See Goldsmith 361:47.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.45.

   When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

-Austin, Mary Hunter
  The Land of Little Rain,'The Basket Maker'.

The government of a woman has been a rare thing at all times; felicity in such government a rarer thing still; felicityand long continuance together the rarest thing of all.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
Quoted in  J E Neale The Age of Catherine de Medici and Essays in Elizabethan History (1963), p.217.

   Un homme n'a jamais pu e¤  lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a'   lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

   La femme marie¤  e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

A lui la foi, a'   elle le doute, a'   elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
La Recherche de l'absolu.

Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of Americanmanmorethantheautomobile, or seemsso important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.

-Barr, Alfred Hamilton,Jr
  In news summaries, 31 Dec. / 2

Charm†it's a sort of a bloom on a woman.If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
  What Every  Woman Knows (published1918), act1.

La femme est naturelle, c'est-a'  -dire abominable. Woman is natural, that is, abominable.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.5.