“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

“The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.”

“A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.”

“I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.”

“Smacking his arm lightly, she leaned back. "And Adam is way nicer than his brother.""A rabid hyena is nicer than Andrew," he retorted. "When we were kids, he locked me in an old chest once. Left me there for hours.”

“There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.”