
“Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”
Lucy, Act II, sc. xiii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye
“Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”
Lucy, Act II, sc. xiii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition (2009)
“I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.”
“Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.”
Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311
“Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker.”
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)
Drummond, William (pseud. Arthur Calder-Marshall). Victim. London: Corgi. 1961.