Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!
Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.