“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
“American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.”
“In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.”
“Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.”
“Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.”
“If women don't find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy.”