George Bernard Shaw

“ CRAVEN. No, no, my precious. Come: don't cry.
PARAMORE (to Charteris, looking at Julia with delight) . How beautiful she is!
CHARTERIS (throwing up his hands) . Oh, Lord help you, Paramore! (He leaves the bookcase and sits at the end of the couch farthest from the fire. Meanwhile Sylvia arrives.)
SYLVIA (contemplating Julia) . Crying again! Well, you are a womanly one!
CRAVEN. Don't worry your sister, Sylvia. You know she can't bear it.
SYLVIA. I speak for her good, Dad. All the world can't be expected to know that she's the family baby.
JULIA. You will get your ears boxed presently, Silly. ”

“ OCTAVIUS Not a scoundrel! He is a heartless scoundrel.
RAMSDEN A damned scoundrel. I beg your pardon, Annie; but I can say no less.
TANNER So we are to marry your sister to a damned scoundrel by way of reforming her character! On my soul, I think you are all mad.
ANN Don't be absurd, Jack. Of course you are quite right, Tavy; but we don't know who he is: Violet won't tell us.
TANNER What on earth does it matter who he is? He's done his part; and Violet must do the rest.
RAMSDEN [beside himself] Stuff! lunacy! There is a rascal in our midst, a libertine, a villain worse than a murderer ”

“ CROFTS. No; and to tell you the honest truth I don't want to be either. But when I say a thing I mean it; and when I feel a sentiment I feel it in earnest; and what I value I pay hard money for. Thats the sort of man I am.
VIVIE. It does you great credit, I'm sure.
CROFTS. Oh, I don't mean to praise myself. I have my faults, Heaven knows: no man is more sensible of that than I am. I know I'm not perfect: thats one of the advantages of being a middle-aged man; for I'm not a young man, and I know it. But my code is a simple one, and, I think, a good one. Honor between man and man ”