She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.