And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy’s floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it.” (Charles)

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

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

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

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!