I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; ….

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as….

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early..

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums..

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century..

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a w….

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of ….

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.

If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a rail….

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that t….

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing..

Above all else, never think you're not good enough..

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men..

Beware of creating tedium!.

It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londo….

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist s….

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work..

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything..

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world..

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural..

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable..