Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

One must make one's own mistakes

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.