Disraeli on Women.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 101, 9 May 1885, Page 5

Disraeli on Women.

I think that Disraeli, in an old manuscript has treated the sex abominably. Still I cannot avoid occasionally laughing with him, for his reflections, though not always just, are generally amusing. Here is a first budget of extracts • ''Coquettes give their blossoms to their lovers and their thorns to their husbands. " When a woman has lost one battle she rarely wins another against the same foe. " A blush often announces the departure as well as the arrival of shame. " VS hy do the Germans make the moon j masculine ? Surely we are justified in regarding her as feminine, since fho is essentially changeable. "Men are people who make rules ; women are people who ntake exceptions. "It is recorded that Ood said, 'Lot ua make man in our image, after our likeness.' ] It would perhaps have been impolitic in Moses to hint more directly that woman was made in a very different mould. The conclusion, however, is obvious. j " There is no marriage in heaven ; neither j is there any heaven in marriage. I "A beauty without wit seems to me to resemble a bait without any hook in it. "I believe that there are some women who wear petticoats simply lest they should be mistaken for men. " Thero is this difference between pasaion and love— the one breeds headaches, the other breeds heartaches ; but neither would be dangerous if there were no fools in the world. "Love certainly increases the population of the world, but I doubt whether it adds much to that of heaven, " Of all the women whom I have known I chiefly remember those who forgot themselves. t "If a man does not take his wife to church the chances are that, sooner or later, he will be obliged to follow her thither. " Adam in Faradiae must have slept very peacefully— until he had the misfortune to lose his rib. " A woman is flattered by the love even of a beggar in rags. m " Marriage is much like a spacious birdcage set in a garden on a winter day. The ins would be out and the outs would be in. " Love, like a fire, is liablo to be extinguished by overmuch stirring, " A good woman wearies a man ; a bad one worries him. " It is often not until a woman feels that she is too old to be loved by man that she aocka to be loved by God. ••The word 'curious' means quaint as well as inquisitive. Woman, in both senses of the word, is a curious animal. "Man is a substantive; woman is an adjective. "The two most difficult things are to paint a picture on running water and to convince a woman who does not wish to be convinced. "Man sometimes calls a woman a god dess, but he would not love her it she were one. This fact, doubtless, accounts for the partiality which was shown by the sons of God for the daughters of men in the antedeluvian period. The daughters of God must have been a little too ethereal. " It does not speak well for the fairer sex that, as a rule, he best succeeds among women that has the lowest opinion of them. "It is perhaps extraordinary that more marriages do not turn out unhappily since the woman generally marries to get into the world, while tho man as generally marries to get out of it. m " The great argument against the adm's>ion of women to public positions is her inability to be punctual." " A woman may not have a religion, yet she always has a deity. "Most, women feel flattered when they are charged with little weaknesses of which they are not gui)ty ; perhaps because they know that her faults are so often a woman'B chief charms. "A man will return rather to her who has deceived him th«»n to her whom he has deceived. " It is well to remember that a woman's eyes and ears are not all at the same side of her head. "If woman were by nature what she tries to make herself by art, she would be dreadfully discontented."— London Letter ia "New York Worid,"