The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.