Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
William Makepeace ThackerayAs nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
William Makepeace ThackerayTo be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
William Makepeace ThackerayHappy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
William Makepeace Thackeray