 I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. |
| It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. |
| Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. |
| And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. |
| When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. |
| Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. |
| I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty. |
| I ain't a bit ashamed of anything. |
| A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. |
| It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men. |
| It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. |
| This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written. |
| There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. |
| Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. |
| I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. |
| There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. |
| As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. |
| A husband is very much like a house or a horse. |
| In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. |
| It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. |
