Choose A Firm Cloud Before It Fall, And In It Catch, Ere She Change, The Cynthia Of This Minute.

And mistress of herself though china fall.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 268...
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 163...
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 43...
Woman 's at best a contradiction still.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 270...
Most women have no characters at all.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 258...
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or if she rules him, never shows she rules.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 261...
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 215...
Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 257...
Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 15...