You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.