Sublime

"Harry spends his days in saying what is incredible and his evenings in doing what is improbable.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

"My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."

Charles Dickens

a dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces that, once seen, are never remembered;

with whom she was conversing in that intensely earnest manner which is the one unpardonable error, as he remarked once himself, that all really good people fall into, and from which none of them ever quite escape.