Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.

It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!

Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

To a woman – I mean, a nice woman – there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her

You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.