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.

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

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

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 don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

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

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