Beauty: that is the true religion, that is the shrine of worship, as the Greeks understood it; beauty of woman.

Woman was born to express beauty, man to express strength.

We detest weakness in a man, and a homely woman is a crime.

And so De Brissac passed violently?
And his oaths of vengeance were breaths on a mirror.

Ah well, I had ceased to hate him these twenty years.