Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

Common sense ain't common.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

Sometimes I dislike women I dislike us all because of our capacity for not thinking when it suits us...

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

It is sometimes said, common sense is very rare.

I do not like this approach in talking about women and men. I see a society, and we suffer from defects in society.

Good intentions are useless in the absence of common-sense.

Common sense would have told Sarah to steer clear of Ethan's waters. But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have?

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!