Body Quote by Catullus

So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied…

— Catullus

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what…

— Henry David Thoreau

The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail,…

— Elizabeth Fry

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy,…

— Mark Twain

It is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she…

— Marabel Morgan

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from…

— Lafcadio Hearn

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms…

— Anonymous

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of…

— Christopher Morley

“She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.”

— Virginia Woolf