One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.