If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.