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| Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world. | Benjamin Disraeli | Lothair |  |
| "I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income." | Wilkie Collins | No Name | |
| "I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is -- the enormous prosperity of Fools." | Wilkie Collins | No Name | |
| The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. | Saki | Reginald | |
| "The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations--that is why one should be so patient with them." | Saki | Reginald | |
| When a man with the constitution of Montague Dartie has exercised self control for months from religious motives, and remains unrewarded, he does not curse God and die, he curses God and lives, to the distress of his family. | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | |
| He woke at half-past two, an hour which long experience had taught him brings panic intensity to all awkward thoughts. Experience had also taught him that a further waking at the proper hour of eight showed the folly of such panic. | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | |
| I know that journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. | G. K. Chesterton | The Wisdom of Father Brown | |
| "Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings." | William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost | |
| "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." | William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost | |
| "If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits." | Saki | The Unbearable Bassington | |
| "You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis | |
| "All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples. A few gifted individuals manage to do both." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis | |
| "Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet." | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady | |
| "There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!" | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Land of Mist | |
| Of all the great battles in which I had the honour of drawing my sword for the Emperor and for France there was not one which was lost. At Waterloo, although, in a sense, I was present, I was unable to fight, and the enemy was victorious. It is not for me to say that there is a connection between these two things. You know me too well, my friends, to imagine that I would make such a claim. But it gives matter for thought, and some have drawn flattering conclusions from it. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Gerard | |
| "A truly refined mind will seem to be ignorant of the existence of anything that is not perfectly proper, placid, and pleasant." | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | |
| "She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful." | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | |
| The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought. | John Galsworthy | The Country House | |
| "Mrs. Lynde says that sound doctrine in the man and good housekeeping in the woman make an ideal combination for a minister's family." | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | |
