Samuel Richardson

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.