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speed is the curse of the age.
I remember only what interests me.
I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!
Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.
You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.
Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.
How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris
There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
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.
Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.
[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles)
And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!
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 her.
Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.
Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.
I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!