Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...

He spoke fluently and unceasingly. He could in this way be one thing and seem another: for instance, he could speak of love and think of dinner; call on the husband to look at the wife; be eager to pay and intend to owe.

Always wanting another man than your own.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.