“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all ...”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.”

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.”

“A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.”

“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and al...”

“It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature”