“When a woman plays the fool, look for the man. That was one of Lini's favorites. Another was, Kittens tangle your yarn, men tangle your wits, and it's simple as breathing for both.”

“Look at this tangle of thorns.”

“… who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”

“Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there. — A fool tangled in a religious snare. ”

“The human heart is a tangled wood wherein no man knows his way.”

“Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.”

“What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.”

“Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.”

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”

“As palace mirror'd in the stream, as vapour mingled with the skies,
So weaves the brain of mortal man the tangled web of Truth and Lies.”