Monkshood gathers hundreds of epigrams on women, love, marriage and beauty, prefaced by a short essay on how hard the epigram is to define. The voices range across centuries and nations, from La Rochefoucauld and Balzac to Ruskin, Sydney Smith and Henry Ward Beecher, some witty, some sentimental, and many plainly the prejudices of their day.
A browsing collection for lovers of quotations, best read as a record of what earlier generations found clever. Download the free EPUB.