Female friendships are of rapid growth. [ Beaconsfield ]
Women were made to give our eyes delight;
A female sloven is an odious sight. [ Young ]
There are male as well as female gossips. [ Colton ]
There are female women, and there are male women. [ Charles Buxton ]
Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism. [ Horace Mann ]
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. [ Rochefoucauld ]
I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and a female pedant. [ Goldsmith ]
A sweet expression is the highest type of female loveliness. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage. [ Spectator ]
The love of ornament creeps slowly but surely into the female heart. [ Mrs. S. C. Hall ]
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. [ Fielding ]
If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. [ Pope ]
Beauties, whether male or female, are generally the most untractable people of all others. [ Steele ]
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. [ Lamartine ]
Very learned women are to be met with, just as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. [ Carlyle ]
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. [ Lamb ]
Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms - oftenest. God bless her! - in female breasts. [ Dickens ]
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. [ Otway ]
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors, but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins are in direct antagonism to each other. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. [ Miss Edgeworth ]
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]
In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to be obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother. [ Jane Porter ]
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one. [ Lavater ]
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. [ Beaconsfield ]
The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. [ Judge Haliburton ]
Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who, though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular. [ Addison ]
He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]
Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]