Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

Learn to love yourself and all that other stuff will not matter

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

Innovation without insight is failure.

Life is real, and death is the illusion.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.