"I've often obsereved that this war is comprarable to the Trojain war. Only Germany was insulted from the last war, and there is no noble quest for a lady," Lysander lit a cigarette dragging on it. "The Earl of Rochester John Wilmot has said in one of his ever wise poems: 'Love a woman? You're an ass!' He's right. But loving a man is harder," He exhaled, then quickly amended a statement that could be read wrong. "Or so my female friends have said. Plenty of decent women to be had, not enough decent men. I've made it clear, I'll have a smart woman over a pious lady anyday. Stupid bitches will believe anything a priest tells them," he laughed. "But I digress, the only thing more stupid than taunting the lioness, would be to insult her," he offered a calvier grin.