"It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country."

“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

“People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.”

“The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.”

“You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.”

“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

“Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.”