The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families — just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion; and, I believe, what are called broken hearts are very rare articles indeed.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.