The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Most writers adore their editors, and I’m no exception.

There’s an exception to every rule, Nora. And you’ve never failed at being the exception before.

An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man’s imagination.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don’t be the one!