The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.
It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.
I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and...
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?
I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose
That didn't surprise me; 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.
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
