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

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

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

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

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

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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