Tiffany

“That’s the trouble about regulated ideas: the phrases are never original, the same words keep recurring.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“And Mademoiselle Dupre, finding everything unintelligible, was completely reassured: such good-bys were normal among the unfortunate English-speakers, an uncouth language, it affected their minds; or perhaps, poor people, it was not given to all languages to perform with the precision, the clarity, the grace of a French epigram.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Some men would do better to stay poor,” Francesca said. “ Money only exaggerates their vulgarities.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Like most women you are riddled with the missionary instinct, that always seeks to change a man's nature and make it a little higher than the angels; whereas a man knows he can't remake any woman, and if his wife doesn't suit him, he accepts her as she is or goes out and finds another.”
― R.A. Dick, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir