Good or bad I propose to be something great!

- Arthur Desmond

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

- Arthur Desmond

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.

- Arthur Desmond

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

- Arthur Desmond

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

- Arthur Desmond

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

- Arthur Desmond

Women find little pleasure in the society of women.

- Arthur Desmond

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

- Arthur Desmond

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

- Arthur Desmond