History has a kindly way of glossing over little faults like brigandage, slaughter, piracy, and assaults on women, especially when the perpetrators possess titles and landed estates.
Reputable scholars might have denied its authenticity, but there are always other scholars who disagree--and people will believe what they want to believe, never mind the evidence. If there is anythin...
I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...
A woman’s instinct, I always feel, supercedes logic.
My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. Yo...
His blue-and-white striped robe ballooning out in the wind, he rode directly to me and fell off the donkey. Gasping theatrically, he handed me a note and then collapsed face down in the sand. Since th...
Bucolic peace is not my ambience,
We all know how ruthlessly these American millionaires crush their rivals as they climb to power.
Stop, he ordered, in a low but compelling voice. Do not take another step, or I fire! Dash it, he added vexedly, does the monstrosity understand English? How absurd this is!It understands the gesture,...
One thing led to another, and we were a trifle late going down for dinner.
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt.
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
His masculinity was only too apparent
For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...
Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called the lessons of history, but at least we should be able to...
Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!
Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!
The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.