Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.