You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Wait and hope!

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.