Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

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.

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

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

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

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.