Quotes by Mandeville, Bernard

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virt >>

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen ple >>

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any th >>

Quotations about Gender

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of pe >>

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, an >>

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clea >>

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

Mandeville, Bernard