'...The fact that I could knock spots off most of her friends at golf and tennis surprised, delighted and encouraged Isabella. She considered this not as a sign of a misspent youth but as a Good Sign. This Good Sign illusion is peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon peoples. If a Frenchman is a world's champion at tennis, as even Frenchmen sometimes are, his compatriots are delighted but are not therefore convinced that he wears wings beneath his tennis shirt. In England and America it is taken for granted that a man whose eye for a ball commands respect must necessarily have more Good in him than the other fellow. Why? But this illusion persists in face of the fact that there is a great deal more humbug, conceit, caddishness and corruption among the well-known sportsmen of the world than among the politicians, whom it is convenient and human to blame for everything.'
from Men Dislike Women by Michael Arlen (Chapter V)
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