When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with..

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it ….

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation..

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do..

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit..

O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! Y….

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridicul….

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner..

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending..

I remember only what interests me..

Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, ….

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments..

Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! I….

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?.

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself.

You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ev….

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloo….

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have h….

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better..

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of t….

Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said wit….