"Many women long for what eludes them, and……" — Ovid
"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."
More Elude Quotes
- As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace… — Chinua Achebe
- The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid… — Alfred North Whitehead
- For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill
- To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana
- General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like… — William Hazlitt
- My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the… — Georges Bataille
- Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So… — Elie Wiesel
- Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever… — Ralph Gibson
- Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my… — Hugh Laurie
- The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come… — Anita Moorjani
- Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is… — John Tyler