A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Most people don’t think most of the time. They just use other people’s thoughts as a crutch to get by.

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.