What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

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

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

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

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