#his

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#hardest #his #intentions #life #man

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #calls #conscience #follows #his

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#her #highest #his #last #makes

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#follies #had #his #life #man

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#his #how #inferiors #man #measure

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#even #foolproof #his #impress #knew

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#another #banks #call #communal #community

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#free #his #judgement #keep #main

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗

— Ed Royce

#abroad #activity #aggressive #any #democracies