You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.
fateferdy
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
humormenthoughtstso-funnywomen
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
abductionhumormodern-youthtso-funny
How could you receive a member of the Male Sex in your bedroom, and in your dressing gown?Sir, I must request you to leave immediately1You don't mean to tell me that's a dressing gown? interrupted Mr Carlton, a dangerous gleam in his eyes. Well, it's by far the most elegant one I've ever been priviledged to see, and I suppose I must have seen scores of 'em in my time-paid for them too!
humourtso-funny
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.
romance
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
grammarhumortso-funnywomen
He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marriage to a librarian, this very handsome concession on Mr Fawnhope's part merely added to her despondency.
humorouslibrarians
His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?''Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.
humorousintelligent-conversation
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.
ironymanners
Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?
kissmarriage
Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages.
husbandsmarriage
...Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.
men
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
idyllpain
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.
romantic
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
sacrificetso-love