The truth isn’t quite the sort of think one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is, and steal out of your company.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Talk of woman’s instinct – why, it is well known all the world over that a woman is the surest mark for any rascally swindler. Not one in ten of them knows a scoundrel when she meets one.
Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels. A malformation of the grey cells may coincide quite easily with the face of a Madonna.
So may the outward shows be least themselves, the world is still deceived with ornament.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
One must accept truth. It’s no good basing your life on a lie because it’s what you want to believe.
