Tiffany

“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

“Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man’s language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Most illogical, inconsequential, and light-headed this. But travelers in the valley of the shadow of death are apt to be light-headed. And worn out old people of low estate have a trick of reasoning as indifferently as they live ...”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“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