Jane

“I had seen enough of Western courtship rituals to know European families did little to identify, research and arrange suitable marriages. Instead, to catch the attention of potential partners, Western males had to resort to shows of strength, aggression and virility, rather like wild boars in the mating season, and Western females had to decorate themselves and their homes, like bower birds.”
― Ovidia Yu, The Frangipani Tree Mystery

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“You can't go about smelling of April and May, the pair of you, and then expect to gull people into thinking you don't mean to get riveted!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”
― Phyllis McGinley