Quote

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.