5 quotes found
“...Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.”
“The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.”
“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
“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 t...”
“O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be t...”
