I think it very doubtful whether I shall ever marry at all.

I am just the kind of man to go down to my grave a bachelor." "Why so, Gilbert ?" "Well, I can hardly tell you, my dear.

Perhaps I am rather difficult to please--just a little stony-hearted and invulnerable.

I know that since I was a boy, and got over my schoolboy love affairs, I have never seen the woman who could touch my heart.

I have met plenty of pretty women, and plenty of brilliant women, of course, in society; and have admired them, and there an end.