Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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

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.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

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

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.