Tell him everything; it is best. He will forgive you.
When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.
It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they steamed in the warmth of the sun, which at this unsettled season shone on the grass w...
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.