There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things. - Anthony Trollope

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. It is hardly too much to say that we all of us occasionally speak of our dearest friends in a manner in which those dearest friends would very little like to hear themselves mentioned, and that we nevertheless expect that our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults, but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything...