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

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.

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.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.