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

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.