Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.