"I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'I have not much..."
- Charlotte Brontë
"The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always."
- Arthur Miller
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a ..."
- Agatha Christie
"The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have..."
- Deb Baker
"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions."
- Charles Darwin
"I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn't going to prom, but I had - stupidly, embarrassingly - thought of finding..."
- John Green
"There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid."
- Lisa Gardner
"Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter."
- Jim Butcher
"It was 1976.It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured the width and depth of a mattress and showed us how to use it. It had a belt wi..."
- Laurie Notaro
"Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its station."
- Ogden Nash