Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
The art of life is to show your hand.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.