Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Quite definitely a Bingley

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

What part of Canada are you from, honey?""THE LEFT PART, " said Jay.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

Loaming is my special word for it..it's a combination of looming and roaming

I love an opposition that has convictions.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.