Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief. - Edmund Clerihew Bentley

You may as well know, Philip — you'll soon find out, anyhow — the truth is she will flirt with any man that she doesn't actively dislike. She's so brimful of life she can't hold herself in — or she won't, rather; she says there's no harm in it, and she doesn't care if there is. Before her marriage she didn't go on in that way, but since it turned out badly she has been simply uncivilized on that point. And her being perfectly clear-headed about it makes it so much worse.

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.