The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

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

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

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

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.