“Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.”

“If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.”

“Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.”

“I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.”

“In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.”

“All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”

“And what of this young woman beside him, whom he had loved devotedly for four years and still did love? She had given him more than Elizabeth ever could: months of unflawed relationship, unquestion...”

“God, thought Ross, it does work, and unfairly; but I want her, not any other, not the most beautiful eighteen-year-old damsel born out of a sea-shell, not the most seductive houri of any sultan's h...”

“I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?”