1. Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
He Knew He Was Right
2. There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Barchester Towers
3. A woman's weapon is her tongue.
The Way We Live Now
4. In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.
Can You Forgive Her?
