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| "Aye, indeed! Hast been brought up at the Abbey then. I could read it from thy reddened cheek and downcast eye, Hast learned from the monks, I trow, to fear a woman as thou wouldst a lazar-house. Out upon them! that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching. A pretty world it would be with all the women out of it." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The White Company |  |
| A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Crime of The Brigadier |  |
| . . . she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford |  |
| A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power. | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways |  |
| There she plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership) . . . | O. Henry | Strictly Business |  |
| . . . the task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women. | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel |  |
| The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion. | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians |  |
| Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts . . . | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair |  |
| It was the women’s tribute to the war. It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women. | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair |  |
| "One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything." | Oscar Wilde | A Woman of No Importance |  |