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.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.