Status Updates From Retrato de una dama

'She has only one fault.'
'What's that?'
'Too many ideas.'

'You're capable of anything, you and Osmond... together you're dangerous - like some chemical combination.'

"The Countess was very good company and not at all the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said."

‘some people don’t like a moat, you know. good-bye.’ i’m on the verge of tears

Let the girl live Jesus

'Oh yes, I obey very well,' cried Pansy with soft eagerness, almost with boastfulness.

“[T]he girl presently made up her mind that to be rich was a virtue because it was to be able to do, and that to do could only be sweet.”