You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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.
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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.