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| Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them. | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White |  |
| . . . the world prefers decorum to honesty. | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | |
| "Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!" | Eleanor H. Porter | Pollyanna | |
| Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic . . . | Charles Dudley Warner | That Fortune | |
| I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Poet at the Breakfast Table | |
| Nobody talks much that does n't say unwise things,--things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Professor at the Breakfast Table | |
| Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Professor at the Breakfast Table | |
| . . . it is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| "There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel." | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. | Charles Dickens | Master Humphrey's Clock | |
| "Your voice and music are the same to me." | Charles Dickens | The Haunted Man | |
| Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. | Charles Dickens | The Haunted Man | |
| One can say everything best over a meal. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| "Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others." | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cousin Phillis | |
| Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. | Anthony Hope | Dolly Dialogues | |
| "A word in earnest is as good as a speech." | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | |
| To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady | |
| The legend went, unconfirmed and unaccredited, but still propagated. | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | |
| Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | |
| But there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing. | Charlotte Gilman | Herland | |
