“Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?”

“it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.”

“My friend, in working upon a case, one does not take into account only the things that are "mentioned". There is no reason to mention many things which may be important. Equally, there is often an excellent reason for not mentioning them.”

“A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.”

“We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before”

“I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.”