There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.