"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."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

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

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