Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

“I keep a band of music in my ante-room," he said once to her. "It has orders to…”

“The Brighton air used of old to make plain girls pretty and pretty girls pretti…”

“The old superstition about fiction being 'wicked' has doubtless died out in Eng…”

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cr…”