Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.