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

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

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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.

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

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