We went our several ways, " said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

Don't be distracted by doubters.

People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

I know, every time I get somewhere, it'll be strange. But if I understand correctly, I also have fans here and it reassures me.