the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.