“Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.”
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
“Woman, I could drown in your love, but I’d much rather be strangled. More passionate, don’t you agree?”
“You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.”
“Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all.”
“Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.”