"Moral severity in women is only a..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.”

“Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.”

“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.”

“All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.”

“If you're going to cheat, it's better if you don't get caught.”

“We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.”

“The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.”

“The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.”

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”