Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

Breaking News: I am still standing!

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

I wish I could be elegant.

A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts