I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me. - Colleen McCullough

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.

We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by marriage. It's an act of love - of love. Not merely of the flesh, but of the mind and even the soul. There's nothing about it you shouldn't welcome.