Barbara Mertz Men Quotations

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.

If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.