She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it. - Anthony Trollope

I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.

How am I to tell you what he said? He talked nonsense about my beauty, as all the men do. If a woman were hump-backed, and had only one eye, they wouldn’t be ashamed to tell her she was a Venus.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.