Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just it.

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.