Is there, he asked with a bitter smile, any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson? Nobody held up a hand. As I feared, said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up...
Does the stag in his hour of victory need a diploma from the hind?
But the dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Because I was a pedant. I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system.
I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
You wondered even when you heard that he was wont at Oxford to make without help his toilet of every day. Well, the true dandy is always capable of such high independence. He is craftsman as well as a...
The unforgettable thing in his life is usually not a thing he has done or left undone, but a thing done to him—some insolence or cruelty for which he could not, or did not, avenge himself.