Note 54 — Chapter XIII · THE WOMAN

There are great differences with regard to swearing between different nations; but I think that in those countries and in those circles in which swearing is common it is found much more extensively among men than among women: this at any rate is true of Denmark. There is, however, a general social movement against swearing, and now there are many men who never swear. A friend writes to me: “The best English men hardly swear at all.... I imagine some of our fashionable women now swear as much as the men they consort with.”