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,...
I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...
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.
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?
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!
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.
No, no, you needn’t slap me; I am not at all hysterical.
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
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...
Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.
If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.
I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt.
For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...
Can't you ever stop joking?No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you going to ask what the other one is?
Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)
My nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.
What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?''She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said. 'You know how she is about bones.