Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how ….

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out..

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life..

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us..

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own..

I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday mo….

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income..

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story..

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they ca….

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can….

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil..

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, a….

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman..

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools..

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody..

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand..

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it..

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying..

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it..

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light..