How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.