“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?”

“a man whose life is so boring that if it flashed past he wouldn't be in it”

“Now he was far from bored but feeling many of the same stresses that had caused him to retire from active duty in the first place. Was it possible to find a station in life with just the right level of interest? Was it possible to be normal without being someone’s dupe?”

“There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.”

“To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.”

“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”

“Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”