I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons, but you may depend upon it none of those knight-errants would be able to rescue one from a social fix, and you must own, Meg, that one ha...
I am sure I do not know why a man should not be a gamester, if his talents make it an eligible profession for him!
I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise?And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know.I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am!Or l...
How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?
He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marr...
He was at the concert last night, and she looked at him as if he were her whole dependence and delight.’ ‘No, did she? I envy him. Not, of course, that I’ve the smallest desire that should bestow suc...
He paused and then said, as though the words were wrung out of him: ‘O God, Mama, I’ve made such a mull of it! What am I to do?
He is clearly unhinging.
He did not defy convention: when it did not interfere with whatever line of conduct he meant to pursue he conformed to it; and when it did he ignored it, affably conceding to his critics their right t...
Have you any brothers? demanded Mr. Beaumaris. No, said Mr. Scunthorpe, blinking at him. Only child. You relieve my mind. Offer my congratulations to your parents!
God knew she would ask nothing better than to be his wife, but she had sense enough to know that nothing but unhappiness could result from it. If he had loved her, if she had been of his world, approv...
Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress.
Eggs I must instantly have! she announced. And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but not in the kitchen!
Do you recall Fred Merriville?She stared at him. Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you h...
Creo que jamás aconsejaría a nadie que se diera por vencido, porque no soporto esa actitud tan débil.
Child, you do not know me. You have created a mythical being in my likeness whom you have set up as a god. It is not I. Many times, infant, I have told you that I am no hero, but I think you have not...
Blister me if I can make head or tail of this coil. Vidal’s damned lackeys are as close as a lot of oysters. Y’know, Léonie, the boy’s a marvel, so he is. I never could keep a servant who didn’t blab...
And I should like to know why you talked of us to Mrs Scaling as though you had been our grandfather!’ ‘I feel like your grandfather,’ he replied.