every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter. - Anthony Trollope

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways — Who was to be the new Bishop?

He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject....he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism.