“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
“What's the point of having a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?”
“if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.”
“The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.”
“People," she sneered, "were not meant to be as happy as you make them."…"People were meant to be as happy as you make them.”
“These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.”