Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.