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

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

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.

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.

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