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

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

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

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!