To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!