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“I have long known you to be the worst sort of villain.”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting

“It is not uncommon to encounter persons who are in the habit of making outlandish claims. It is rarer to meet persons who are also in the habit of fulfilling them, and it was to this second group that Miss Kitty Talbot belonged.”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting

“Harry,' said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Well, you displayed so little anxiety about my being murdered,' he said to her hotly, pride very much injured, 'that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not.”
― Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting