Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.

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.

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

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.

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.

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