It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.