Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
whether women
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
women long elude
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
women
What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
girl women heart
Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.
women shopping creatures
A woman is a creature that's always shopping.
women thinking attractive
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
women autumn wind
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
night ugly woman
At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
believe
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
darkness fault hid night woman
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
anger becomes belongs fair ferocious peace
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
death frown sneer worried
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
prince
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.