Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

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?

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

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

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

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.