I do not doubt he has a low opinion of women too. Gallantry is often a cloak for contempt. - Elizabeth Peters

God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,” he said bitterly. “We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.

Fists and rocks and clubs can do a limited amount of harm, but a gun is entirely different. It makes a weak man feel like a hero and a strong man feel as if he is immortal, and it removes the last inhibition a killer might feel. You don't have to be close to a man to put a bullet in him. You don't have to have to see his face.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.