Quotes

“It’s the unexpected that always happens, isn’t it? You never can tell, sir: you never can tell.”

“It’s unwise to be born; it’s unwise to be married; it’s unwise to live; and it’s unwise to die.”

“We don’t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don’t dress well and we’ve no manners.”

“How many times he has laid the trap in which he has caught you; how often he has baited it with the same speeches; how much practice it has taken to make him perfect in his chosen part in life as the Duelist of Sex.”

“Nature was in deadly earnest with me when I was in jest with her.”

“No, no, no. Not love: we know better than that. Let’s call it Chemistry.”

“We don’t bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don’t dress well and we’ve no manners.”