The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.