"I have been listening to some very dull music, and have just been relieved by the entrance of a fat lady."

"I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."

"She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."

"I am not a good woman, but I am a good creature."

"Laugh at me as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."