William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity fair (№ 8947)

The best of women are hypocrites.. We don't know how much they hide from us; how watchful they are when we seem to be openhearted and trusting; how often their angelic smiles that don't cost them any labor to be simply a trap to flatter the man, to get around it and disarm, I did not speak about the note coquettes, but on our rough matrons, these examples of female virtue. Who has not seen his wife hides from all the stupidity the fool-husband or calms the rage of its excessively radiated to the Lord? We take this kind to us slavery for granted and praise for him; we call this hypocrisy pretty true. The good wife and mistress - of necessity a liar.