A woman's surrender is in reality a desertion, a going over to the enemy.
Thenceforward she is an ally. Indeed
A woman's capitulation is her conquest.
* * *
Let no amount of simulated austerity deter you. The marble Galatea came
to life at the prayer of a man.
* * *
The number of modes in which a woman can say 'Yes' has not, up to the
present, be accurately enumerated; but perhaps the one most frequently in
use is the negative imperative. And
Many are the men who have puzzled long and painfully over the motives of
a woman's 'No.' Yet in nine cases out of ten a woman says 'No' merely
because she feels herself on the brink of saying 'Yes'. In other words,
It is often mistrust of herself that leads many a woman to refuse it will
the lips the consent that is fluttering at her heart. Perhaps that is
why
With woman 'Yea' and 'Nay' are meaningless and interchangeable terms.
* * *
'Ware a show of excessive feeling. It is proof, either that it is
shallow and evanescent, or that it is put on. At all events
Excessive feeling is rarely taken seriously. Now
Seriousness adds a spice to gallantry. But, like spice, a little is
ample.
* * *
Many men think it is the woman who has to be persuaded. It is not the
woman; it is her scruples. Besides, "Nemo repente turpissimus--vel
turpissima". Yet
By thirty, scruples are either dormant or dominant.
Both of the callow youth of fifteen and the man of the world of
forty-five swear by the woman of thirty.
* * *
It may seem a paradox, but it is a truism, that, in matters of love, it
is the weaker and the defenseless sex that takes the initiative. In
other words,