If a man is a good lawyer, a good physician, a good engineer ... he may be a fool in every other capacity. But no deficiency or mi...stake of judgment is forgiven to a woman ... and should she fail anywhere, if she has any scientific attainment, or artistic faculty, instead of standing her interest as an excuse, it is censured as an aggravation and offence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpne...ss of vision, which may be better understood by the term sprightliness of imagination, which has enabled them to discern, or at least to recognize those smaller springs of action that regulate the conduct of mankind, which, from their supposed insignificancy, have escaped the grosser sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aouda: Mr. Fogg, why must you be so ... so British? Phileas Fogg: Madam, I am what I am.... Aouda: No. You're kind and warm and generous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can live without it all-- love with its blood pump,... sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm darned if I understand you city folks. Always rushing, rushing. Always thinking about the future. No wonder you have stomach t...rouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Speed is good only when wisdom leads the way. The end of this journey, whether to the high horizons of hope or the depths of destr...uction, will be determined by the collective wisdom of the people who live on this shrinking planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whist Partner: Great Caesar's Ghost. A woman! In the Club. Phileas Fogg: My dear, I must ask you to leave these precincts at ...once. No woman has ever set foot in the Club. Aouda: Why not? Phileas Fogg: Because that could spell the end of the British Empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »