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 were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.
Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
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.