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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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

An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

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

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

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

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful
or there'd be no gambling in the world.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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

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.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

The Futurists? ... Well, of course, they are already past.

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing!