"Mr Touchett used to think that she reminded him of his wife when his wife was in her teens. It was because she was fr…"

"If I should cease to think of you at all for a prescribed time, I should find I could keep it up indefinitely. [...] …"

"She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romanti…"

"Mrs Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her behaviour on returning to her husband's house afte…"

"She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] [...]. But this was not the case; she was wond…"

"There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding."

"The fatal futility of Fact."

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the…"

"Don't undervalue irony; it is often of great use."

"Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all."