Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.