A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.

I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway." "Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery?" It was hard not to smile at that. "An excellent point." "I think so.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)