England Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience…

— Donna Leon

“ “Virtue is its own reward.But then, the same could be said for sin.” —The Dowager Marchioness of Wallingham to the Countess of Berne…

— Elisa Braden

“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores silence, and…

— Albert Camus

“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding.…

— Baltasar Gracián

“Who can find a virtuous woman? the proverb asks. For her price is above rubies. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with…

— Stephen King

“Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance…

— Jude Deveraux

“Since this time yesterday she had made the pleasing discovery that she was fast falling in love violently, and as it now appeared unrequitedly,…

— Rhoda Broughton

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation—but steady every-day goodness…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought…

— Jane Austen