What Woman Has Said Against Man.

Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 47, 26 April 1884, Page 4

What Woman Has Said Against Man.

Men are hard to please, and apt to change. I had a conception of a monster ! It had a rational soul, yet was a fool. It had a beautiful and perfect shape, yet was deformed and illfavoured. It was produced from the Gods, but had the nature of a devil. This monster I call — man. —Duchess of Newcastle.

"Ay ! Ay ! One would think, to hear some folk talk, as the men war 'cute enough to count the corns in a basr o' wheat wi only smelling at it. They can see through a barn door ; they can. Perhaps that's the reason they can see so little o' this side on'l !" " Men are mostly so slow their thoughts over-run 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can, count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready." — George Eliot.

Show me one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry ; or rather I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all. —Miss SiiKrARD.

Curs'd, curs'd dissembling men ! their flattering tongues Can feign a passion that will look like love ; Till by degrees they get us in their power, Then with bold impudence they draw the vizor, And show the cheat that mocked our credulous hopes. —Mrs Centlivke.

Your wise men are the greatest fools upon earth, they reason about their enjoyments and analyze their pleasures, whilst the essence escapes. — Mks Cowley.

Man's temper is Often forgetful, fickle, and throws down The temple he can never build again. — Letitia Eliz. Landon (L.E.L.)

Falsehood ! — why all that seemeth fairest and sweetest on this carth — honoux* and loyalty — friendship and love — the fjromises of man— what be they but falsehood! — Mary Russell Mitford.

Oh, sad state Of human wretchedness ; so weak is man. So ignorant and blind, that did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. —Hannah Moore.

Men in general are apt to act and think as if they were created to exist of and by themselves. We may grant them to be selfish, and pity rather than blame them that they are so, for no happy being ever yet was found whose hopes and wishes centred in its ow bosom. — Mrs. Ellis.

Some men are born to feast and not to fight, Whose sluggish minds, c'en in fair honour's field, Still on their dinners turn. —Joanna Baillik.

What is a Gentleman 1 Is it a thing Decked with a scarf pin, a chain, and a ring ; Drest in a suite of immaculate style, Sporting an eye-glass, a lisp, and a smile ; Talking of concerts, of parties, and balls, Evening assemblies, and afternoon calls ; Sunning himself at " At Homes " and bazaars, Whistling mazurkas, and smoking cigars? — O'Donogiiue,