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

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

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

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!