Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

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