Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Quotes

“you say that men are worse than women, as most people do, then of course we improve them by closer political”
― Bayard Taylor, Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

“tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away. As Lord Bacon says (in that play falsely attributed to Shakespeare)—"Ay, there's the rub!" If you were to ask me, NOW, what effect the right of suffrage, office, and all the duties of men has had upon the morals of the women of our State, I should be puzzled what”
― Bayard Taylor, Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

“Conventions, that all the champions of our sex feel the same way. Well, since I must come to an end somewhere, let it be here. To quote Lord Bacon again, take my "round, unvarnished tale," and perhaps the world will yet acknowledge that some good has been done by Yours truly,”
― Bayard Taylor, Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home