“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”

“MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grief he can always get a girl.There's no second spring for a woman. None.She can't recall it, nobody...”

“Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselvesMagistrate: You do?Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to ...”

“Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this...”

“Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.”

“Lysistrata: Oh, Calonic, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonic: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women...”

“Oh, come now, you two, Lady Manston said, surely it can be no surprise that I have long hoped for an alliance between the Rokesbys and Bridgertons. Alliance? Billie echoed, and all George could thi...”

“At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder.At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.”

“The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.”

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”

“When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin”

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just...”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”