"I repeat, sir, that in whatever position..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
More by Mark Twain
More on Women
“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”
“It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.”
“Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.”
More on Humanity
“Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.”
“I am large, I contain multitudes”
“They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself”