“Some day you’ll show up when I’m back where I belong in this world. When I have what I ought to have. My due. And when you do. My gamekeepers will drive you out and away for good. Out. Away. Out.”

“And Mary, what of other men? There are no other men because my heart has gone out to you. And if you don't laugh I'll tell you what i think. I won't laugh. I think it's a fine instrument that God made for the poor likes of us to enjoy.”

“Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.”

“Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity.Yours in deathS.D.”

“You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.”

“When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.”