Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He mus...t do it as a sort of ghastly joke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplac...e. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration ...of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its p...ursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion... as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »