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All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
- quote by Jeremy Taylor
And beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.
- quote by Edward Young
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: who so pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- quote by Ecclesiastes
And is not my hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench? As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle
- quote by William Shakespeare
And mistress of herself, though china fall.
- quote by Alexander Pope
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill.
- quote by William Wordsworth
And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches.
- quote by William Beloe
And one false step entirely damns her fame. In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back on what she was before; She sets like stars that fall, to rise no more.
- quote by Nicholas Rowe
And that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
- quote by John Dryden
And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place.
- quote by John Gay