People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Oh, aye. I'm the devil all right. And last night, you were begging to step into the fire.

You may not be punished for your procrastination, but for sure you will be punished by your procrastination.

Impulsive passion please set me free.

Adversity awakens the spirit of every man.

In extreme youth in our most humiliating sorrow we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.