Can anyone tell me the significance in titling it "The Picture..." instead of "The Portrait..."?
Anyhoo, a few of my favorite witticisms from the book:
A conversational exchange regarding an American woman engaged to an English acquaintance:
“Is she pretty?”
“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”
“It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”
In complaining when reasonableness is brought up in a disagreement (a bit representative of the "discussions" of today, eh?):
“How dreadful! I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”
After bargaining for a purchase:
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Outraged when accused of being a sceptic:
“Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.”
Sean
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