One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
None of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
My sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody’s.
Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
