“The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.”

“Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.”

“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.”

“I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.”

“Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind.Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle.There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do.Hide the evidence.”

“A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions.”

“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”