Sublime

I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her." "And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched."

Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat,

A verdict of death by misadventure was returned.

J’adore les plaisirs simples, dit lord Henry. Ce sont les derniers refuges des êtres complexes. Mais je n’aime pas les... scènes, excepté sur les planches. Quels drôles de corps vous êtes, tous deux ! Je m’étonne qu’on ait défini l’homme un animal raisonnable ; pour prématurée, cette définition l’est. L’homme est bien des choses, mais il n’est pas

a lady of admirable good-nature and good temper, much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.

We were quite close, almost touching. Our eyes met again. It was reckless of me, but I asked Lady Brandon to introduce me to him. Perhaps it was not so reckless, after all. It was simply inevitable. We would have spoken to each other without any introduction. I am sure of that.