15 Quotes by Frances Power Cobbe

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage, – they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke, – the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but – Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.