From the Department of Best Lines and Descriptions

"One of the consolations which we men of intellect have is that, when things come to a crisis, what captures the female heart is brains. Women may permit themselves in times of peace to stray after Shieks and look languishingly at lizards whose only claim to admiration is that they can do the first three steps of the Charleston: but let some matters go wrong; let some sudden peril threaten; and who then is the king pippin, who is the main squeeze? The man with the eight and a quarter hat. " (The Small Bachelor, P. G. Wodehouse, p. 220)