As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now she realized that his calmness was some instinctive shame of showing his feeling...
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind. Failure make...
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he'...
TheAlmighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches makeout. If you keep His laws I don’t think He can care apacket of pins whether you believe in Him or not.
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. You
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know eithe...
If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'...
How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a cup of wine were as sweet as the first sip.
Have you ever thought of death? Why should I? It doesn't matter.
Books can’t matter much if their authors themselves don’t think they matter.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.