People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.