"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"I can always live by my pen."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"Angry people are not always wise."

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."