O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
Sir Walter Scott
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A great line used in “The Prisoner of Zenda” by a mocking Count Rupert of Hentzau!
Also of P. G. Wodehouse during the subplot of some of his stories when the male and female romantic leads are quarreling.