Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed. - Rafael Sabatini

You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

It was heroic!
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius."

Bestir, ladies! To your chaise, and see that you contrive to look your best. Soon the eyes of Guichen will be upon you, and the condition of your interior to-morrow will depend upon the impression made by your exterior to-day.