I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Bombazine would have shown a deeper sense of her loss.

We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.