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

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.

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?

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

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.

Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond.

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

What an annoying mad thing love is!

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

Your cat just got cat hair on me.” “It’s only fair,” Min said. “Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.