You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

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

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.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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