It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
Isn't that the key to our easy divorces? If we cared for women in the old barbarous possessive way do you suppose we'd give them up as readily as we do? The real paradox is the fact that the men who m...
Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it so straight up and down—like Fifth Avenue. And with all the cross streets numbered! She seemed to guess his faint disapproval of this, and added, with the ra...
I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great housefull of rooms: there is a hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visit...
Her books, and some inner source of life, had kept her warm.
He met indeed many accomplished and amiable ecclesiastics, but it seemed to him that the more thoughtful among them had either acquired their peace of mind at the cost of a certain sensitiveness, or h...
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had r...
He had grown up among people to whom such emotions were unknown. The old Marquess's passion for his fields and woods was the love of the agriculturist and the hunter, not that of the naturalist or the...
Glennard did himself injustice. it was from the unexpected discovery of his own pettiness that he chiefly suffered. Our self-esteem is apt to be based on the hypothetical great act we have never had o...
Carcel lamp,
But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion.
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I s...
Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.
After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
Её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)
The endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
To be able to look life in the face: that’s worth living in a garret for, isn’t it?
They had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.